Category Archives: PATIENT & FAMILY CARE

Palliative care and neurology: Continuing collaboration at 2019 World Congress of Neurology

Posted on November 11, 2019 by

Professor David Oliver, Chair of the European Association for Palliative Care Neurology Reference Group – Palliative Care, was part of a cohort of palliative care clinicians and academics who presented at this year’s World Congress of Neurology. The Twenty Fourth World … Continue reading →

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Opioids for breathlessness – standard of care in Germany

Posted on October 28, 2019 by

Responding to an earlier post by Professor David Currow and Professor Miriam Johnson, Professor Lukas Radbruch, President of the German Association for Palliative Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin, DGP), gives another perspective from Germany. David Currow and Miriam Johnson have explained … Continue reading →

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Good news for chronic breathlessness from Down Under

Posted on October 23, 2019 by

For the first time in the world, an Australian company has licensed a medication for the symptomatic reduction of chronic breathlessness. Professor David Currow (Australia) and Professor Miriam Johnson (United Kingdom), explain.   Breathing just happens. We don’t think about it, we just breathe. … Continue reading →

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Comparison of financial support for family caregivers of people at the end of life across six countries

Posted on October 14, 2019 by

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR’S CHOICE FROM ‘PALLIATIVE MEDICINE’… This week, 13 to 19 October 2019, marks National Carers Week in Australia to recognise and celebrate the outstanding contribution of unpaid carers. And Australia is one of six countries contributing to a study … Continue reading →

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Winning posters from Berlin: Bringing palliative care education to South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda

Posted on October 7, 2019 by

MORE FROM THE BERLIN POSTERS SERIES… Poster presentations are an essential cornerstone of every EAPC Congress – this year at the 16th EAPC World Congress in Berlin more than 1,100 posters were on display representing the scientific rigour and commitment of … Continue reading →

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Discovering people’s strengths and resources at the end of life

Posted on August 28, 2019 by

On the 90th birthday of pioneering palliative care social worker, Elisabeth Earnshaw-Smith, we are delighted to republish this earlier post, which we hope will stimulate the thinking around the family and social model in palliative care. And you can download … Continue reading →

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A Death Café in the Welsh Valleys

Posted on August 21, 2019 by

Death Cafés are part of a growing worldwide movement to encourage people to talk about death. Mark Taubert, Clinical Director Palliative Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, UK, joined forces with colleagues to … Continue reading →

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