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Category Archives: Palliative Stories
How can palliative care be made more accessible to people who have experienced trauma?
People who would benefit from palliative care will have different needs for accessing the care that would help them. For today’s blog, Anne Cullen and Jeannet Weurman tell us why we must develop approaches to palliative and end of life … Continue reading →
Supports needed for a good home death
CONTINUING OUR SERIES ON PALLIATIVE CARE AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES A mother is told bluntly that her 12-day-old baby is ‘intellectually zero’. Today, our guest writer, Maria Heaton, shares her personal experience as a mother who cared for her own two … Continue reading →
A tribute to Julia Franklin – a palliative care social worker who stood firm for caring relationships
In 2015, we published ‘Palliative Stories’, a series of posts from the perspective of patients and family carers. One of our contributors was Julia Franklin who described what it felt like to change gear from health professional to patient. We are … Continue reading →
Taking palliative care to the top: My meeting with Dr Tedros
Lucy Watts MBE is a patient advocate, a young person’s representative for numerous charities and projects, and founder of the Palliative Care Voices global patient advocacy network. Here, she describes a memorable meeting with the Director-General of the World Health Organization … Continue reading →
Posted in ADVOCACY & POLICY, Palliative Stories
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Tagged Palliative Care Voices, Patient advocacy
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Part of what we lived through: Palliative Stories – the EAPC’s occasional series from the perspective of patients and family carers
Pauline from Germany recalls the tragic sequence of events during the illness of her husband and their 15-year-old son who died within three weeks of each other. Our son died three years ago from glioblastoma after one year of treatment at … Continue reading →
Posted in Carers, Palliative Stories, PATIENT & FAMILY CARE
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Tagged Personal experiences of palliative care
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