Category Archives: EAPC White Papers, Guidelines & Recommendations

Research to meet the needs of family carers – announcing a significant step forward!

Palliative care services seek to improve the wellbeing of family carers of people living with serious and life-limiting illness but how can research in this area be done well? For January’s Palliative Medicine’s Editor’s Choice, Professor Peter Hudson and Professor Clare … Continue reading

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Revised Recommendations on Standards and Norms for Palliative Care in Europe from the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC): A Delphi study published in ‘Palliative Medicine’ 

In the 12 years since the publication of the original EAPC recommendations on standards and norms, palliative care has expanded and increased its reach in many countries of Europe, resulting in the need for an updated and revised edition. Sheila … Continue reading

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EAPC white paper on spiritual care education in palliative care     

CONTINUING OUR SERIES ON SPIRITUALITY AND PALLIATIVE CARE…  Piret Paal is an anthropologist who works as a researcher and coordinator of the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institute of Nursing Science and Practice, Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg, Austria. With comments … Continue reading

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APCP Social Work Task Force translates ‘Core competencies for palliative care social work in Europe’ into Portuguese

Carla Reigada, on behalf of the Portuguese Association of Palliative Care (APCP) Social Work Task Force, introduces the Portuguese translation of this essential document and encourages others to translate it into their languages. Writing in the European Association for Palliative … Continue reading

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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Portugal: Bringing the EAPC white paper to the centre of the Portuguese debate

Introducing a new, two-part series from Sandra Martins Pereira, Mara Freitas, Cátia Ferreira, Pablo Hernández-Marrero and Manuel Luís Capelas, on behalf of the Portuguese Association for Palliative Care. Here, they introduce the Portuguese translation of the European Association for Palliative … Continue reading

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