Category Archives: The Arts in palliative care

Palliative Care on Stage: Cicely Saunders and a world changing encounter.

Posted on August 2, 2022 by pallcare

There aren’t often plays about palliative care (though we think there should be!) so we are delighted to highlight a new production debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month.  Sociologist and now playwright, Professor David Clark tells us about … Continue reading →

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A personal situation…

Posted on January 19, 2022 by pallcare

Hilde M Buiting, PhD, started her career as a researcher in 2005 and now works in a field that crosses palliative care and oncology. In 2015, she started a second study, medicine. In a poem that is part of this … Continue reading →

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“Song of Life” – Music therapy at the end of life

Posted on June 21, 2021 by pallcare

WE’RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THIS MONTH’S ‘EDITOR’S CHOICE’ FROM ‘PALLIATIVE MEDICINE’, THE OFFICIAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF THE EAPC Each month, Professor Catherine Walshe, Editor-in-Chief of ‘Palliative Medicine’, chooses an article that readers may find particularly interesting or useful and invites the … Continue reading →

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Stand by me: Honouring the courage and dedication of all caregivers in the time of coronavirus

Posted on April 30, 2020 by pallcare

Today (April 30), it’s the International Day of Jazz. We’re delighted to share with you a special recording from ‘The Palliators’, a band of Dutch people working professionally in palliative care as caregivers and researchers, and a volunteer. Carlo Leget, Professor … Continue reading →

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Putting down the luggage of a lifetime: A French experience of hospital biography for patients in palliative care

Posted on February 24, 2020 by pallcare

Cliquez ici pour la version en français Continuing our series on Spirituality and Palliative Care where we look at how people deal with crisis and suffering when confronted with life-threatening disease. In this post, Valéria Milewski, hospital biographer at Chartres … Continue reading →

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