Category Archives: PATIENT & FAMILY CARE

Advance care planning in dementia: announcing the EAPC task force’s second white paper

Posted on May 6, 2024 by pallcare

Advance care planning is important for everyone to make sure their wishes and values form part of their future care – and this is especially so for people with dementia. Ahead of the first Advance Care Planning Day (held in … Continue reading →

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 ‘Is it all about the money?’: Comparing public and private hospital palliative care in Portugal.

Posted on April 23, 2024 by pallcare

In 2012, with the publication of the Portuguese Basic Law for Palliative Care, the Portuguese government committed to palliative care and  created the National Palliative Care Network. Pallliative care is provided by the public and private sector in Portugal, and … Continue reading →

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‘Volunteers are our solace’ – palliative care in Kerala.

Posted on April 16, 2024 by pallcare

In the early 1990s, a palliative care movement began in Kerala, in Southern India, with a mission to help people in need of palliative care. Now, almost 60% of the population in Kerala has access to palliative care compared to … Continue reading →

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What are Schwartz Rounds? – an update

Posted on April 9, 2024 by pallcare

The EAPC blog celebrated its 12th anniversary recently, and we announced our top 5 blogs ever. One of the blogs which so captured your interest was about Schwartz Rounds.  Sarah Massie from The Point of Care Foundation brings us up to … Continue reading →

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‘In the eye of the storm, it’s sometimes quiet’: improving communication for young cancer patients and their parents.

Posted on March 26, 2024 by pallcare

Every fifteen minutes, somewhere in Europe, parents are faced with the devastating news that their child has cancer. Improving experience of care provided, for children and their parents, is important and a new research project has identified a need to … Continue reading →

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