Category Archives: Salzburg Global Seminar Series

One hundred and forty-five countries signed the 1951 Refugee Convention: Why do refugees have limited access to quality health care and end-of-life care?

Posted on June 20, 2017 by pallcare

Continuing the Salzburg Questions series that encourages a global discussion about the key issues affecting palliative care. On World Refugee Day today, 20 June, Dr Emmanuel Luyirika, Executive Director, and Shelley Enarson, Communications Consultant, both of the African Palliative Care … Continue reading →

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Will caring for your loved one bankrupt you emotionally and financially?

Posted on May 15, 2017 by pallcare

Continuing our new series, the Salzburg Questions, which aims to encourage a global discussion about the key issues affecting palliative care. To mark the International Day of Families today (15 May 2017), Sheila Payne, Emeritus Professor, International Observatory on End … Continue reading →

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Have you prepared for your death?

Posted on April 26, 2017 by pallcare

Dr Suresh Kumar, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long Term Care & Technical Advisor, Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut, Kerala, India, explores the third question in the Salzburg Questions series, that encourages … Continue reading →

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Is dying well as important as living well?

Posted on March 20, 2017 by pallcare

In response to the Salzburg Questions, a new series encouraging a global discussion about the key issues affecting palliative care, Dr Jonathan Koffman of the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London, UK, explores the importance of addressing happiness at the … Continue reading →

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Rethinking care toward the end of life: Outcomes from a Salzburg Global Seminar

Posted on February 20, 2017 by pallcare

Julie Ling, Chief Executive Officer of the European Association for Palliative Care, and Sheila Payne, Emeritus Professor, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK, were in Salzburg, Austria, to attend this global gathering. Here, they set the … Continue reading →

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