Category Archives: VOLUNTEERING IN PALLIATIVE CARE

Volunteers at the Heart of Hospice and Palliative Care: International Symposium at #EAPC2019

Posted on May 16, 2019 by

ONLY EIGHT DAYS TO #EAPC2019 … AHEAD OF THE 16THWORLD CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE (EAPC) TO BE HELD IN BERLIN, GERMANY, 23 TO 25 MAY 2019, WE BRING YOU ANOTHER  SPECIAL POST TO WELCOME YOU TO … Continue reading →

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Update on the Voice of Volunteering – supporting and learning from the EAPC Madrid Charter on Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care

Posted on April 10, 2019 by

This week, 7 to 13 April, it’s National Volunteers’ Week in Canada and the US. To celebrate, we are republishing this post and ask you to sign the Volunteering Charter to support the valuable work of volunteers in North America. … Continue reading →

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Volunteering in palliative care: Can you trust a volunteer with confidential patient information?

Posted on March 25, 2019 by

ONLY 59 DAYS TO #EAPC2019 … AHEAD OF THE 16TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE 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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Pet therapy in palliative care at Calvary Health Care Sydney

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

Another post in our series on ‘Palliative Care and Animals’ … Calvary Health Care Kogarah is a public hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, providing specialist palliative care and rehabilitation services. Pet therapy has been part of the hospital’s landscape … Continue reading →

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Volunteers, palliative and end-of-life care: Using a new evidence-based volunteering and end-of-life care toolkit

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

‘Volunteers build Resilient Communities’ is the theme of this year’s International Volunteer Day that we celebrate today, 5 December. To celebrate the day in the context of palliative care, Professor Catherine Walshe, Co-director of the International Observatory on End of … Continue reading →

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The Voice of Volunteering – supporting and learning from the EAPC Madrid Charter on Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care

Posted on September 19, 2018 by

Ros Scott and Leena Pelttari (Co-chairs of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Task Force on Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care) and Steven Vanderstichelen (member of the task force steering group) explain. It seems no time at all since the EAPC … Continue reading →

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The start of volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Serbia

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

NEW SERIES: HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE … Serbia’s first palliative care social worker and volunteers coordinator, Mijodrag Bogićević, is Patient Care Manager at the Center for Palliative Care and Palliative Medicine “BELhospice” and a member of … Continue reading →

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