Category Archives: The Arts in palliative care

“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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Spirituality, poetry and palliative care

Posted on February 17, 2020 by pallcare

Continuing our new series on Spirituality and Palliative Care where we look at how people deal with crisis and suffering when confronted with life-threatening disease. Today, Dr Frank Brennan, a palliative care physician from Australia, explains the importance of language in … Continue reading →

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Art therapy and the restoration of capacity in palliative care

Posted on August 5, 2019 by pallcare

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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