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Category Archives: Social work
New EAPC Reference Group on Family Carers – The International Palliative Care Family Carer Research Collaboration (IPCFRC)
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
Discovering people’s strengths and resources at the end of life
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
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
Communication – why it’s so important in palliative care
Cipla Palliative Care and Training Centre in Pune, in the state of Maharashtra in India, has provided free inpatient and home care for cancer patients and their families since 1997. Simoni Binoy describes one of the weekly case presentations conducted by … Continue reading
Strengths and resources: What palliative care social work is made of
In November 2014, the European Association for Palliative Care published a new white paper: Core competencies for palliative care social work in Europe. Here, two of the authors, David Oliviere and Pam Firth, recall people who inspired them in developing … Continue reading
The art of social work in palliative care: EAPC publishes new White Paper on core competencies
Dr Sean Hughes, Research Associate, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, explains the background to a longer article published in the November/December issue of the ‘European Journal of Palliative Care’. My work in more than … Continue reading
