Category Archives: PSYCHO-SOCIAL ISSUES

New EAPC Reference Group on Family Carers – The International Palliative Care Family Carer Research Collaboration (IPCFRC) 

Posted on January 22, 2020 by

Professor Peter Hudson, Chair, and Professor Gunn Grande, Co-Chair, The International Palliative Care Family Carer Research Collaboration (IPCFRC) European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Reference Group, introduce the work of one of the EAPC’s newest reference groups.   A core tenet of palliative … 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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Art therapy and the restoration of capacity in palliative care

Posted on August 5, 2019 by

CATCH UP WITH SOME OF OUR ‘PAST POSTS’ – TODAY WE’RE REPUBLISHING ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE POSTS FROM THE ARTS IN PALLIATIVE CARE SERIES.   The series looks at how the arts in palliative care settings can be a powerful … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 19, 2019 by

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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Let’s play! The Palliators live at #Berlin2019

Posted on April 29, 2019 by

ONLY 24 DAYS TO #EAPC2019 … AHEAD OF THE 16TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE (EAPC) TO BE HELD IN BERLIN, GERMANY, 23 TO 25 MAY 2019, WE BRING YOU SOME SPECIAL POSTS TO WELCOME YOU TO BERLIN. … Continue reading →

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When the artist becomes leader … some thoughts

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

Ahead of the United Nations’ ‘World Creativity and Innovation Day’ (Sunday, 21 April), we are delighted to republish this post from Nigel Hartley, originally published in January 2018 as part of our Arts in Palliative Care series. In this continuing series, … Continue reading →

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