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This article is about the development of complementary and alternative medicine in geriatrics. He questions the meaning of his practices - and more broadly that of relational and non-drug care - as well as their application in the field in the aging sector. Indeed, the promotion of non-drug therapies by the high health authority, the growing role of actors in relational care or the emergence of practices complementary attest to a new dynamic of care in favor of a more global approach to support. If this dynamic was initially deployed in oncology, through supportive care, other sectors - and in particular geriatrics - are opening up to these practices in a logic of personalization of care. As such, the establishment of centers of activity and adapted care reflects a new model of support specific to aging focused on the specific needs of people weakened by age and disease. This work responds to the need to better understand this field as a whole and to highlight the plural issues, societal or medical, scientific, in connection with the process of their integration in geriatrics.

The considerable developments in the field of oncology have led to increased life expectancy and are contributing to conceptual changes in the care and management of patients. As such, the introduction of supportive care represents the archetype of a new "person-centred" approach and its characteristic needs. While the chronicity of the disease reflects advances in treatment, it also raises questions about a particularly long, cumbersome and painful treatment process for an aging and vulnerable population. In this perspective, the emergence of oncogeriatrics reflects the desire to personalize support and to take greater account of the specific needs of the elderly population. However, oncogeriatrics, a relatively new discipline, remains unstructured in the field. The dynamics of humanizing care inevitably come up against complex clinical situations, requiring reflection on its interest and limitations in its application. Thus, the purpose of this article is to propose an inventory of oncogeriatric care by raising a complex articulation between "theory of care" and "its implementation in the field".

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