EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
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The EAPC brings together many voices to forge a vision of excellence in palliative care that meets the needs of patients and their families. It strives to develop and promote palliative care in Europe through information, education and research using multi-professional collaboration while engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
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Every fifteen minutes, somewhere in Europe, parents are faced with the devastating news that their child has cancer. Improving experience of care provided, for children and their parents, is important and a new research project has identified a need to improve communication to optimise care. Prof Kim Beernaert tells us more.
Despite more hopeful prospects compared to previous decades, cancer remains the primary cause of death from disease among children in Europe. While great strides have been made in research and treatment, the path through cancer therapy remains profoundly challenging for t ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
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Research is essential to ensure good quality palliative care, yet important research can be wasted when it is not communicated and implemented. In an ongoing study, Tobias Constien highlights a way to mobilise research for impact and invites researchers to connect with the research project to help create resources to maximise the reach of palliative care research.
There are many inspiring research projects underway in the field of palliative care, addressing the need for further development of services and implementation of high-quality palliative practices across our healthcare systems. Howe ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
1M ago
Many emotions are experienced by people at the end of their lives and by their relatives, yet gratitude could be an overlooked but very signifcant key emotion to consider. For January 2024 Palliative Medicine’s Editor’s Choice, Emmanuelle Poncin, Gian Domenico Borasio and Mathieu Bernard share the findings of their recent research which brings a new perspective to this sometimes undervalued emotion.
Photo credit: Günther Schneider, Pixabay.
Have you ever come home after a long day to find that the table was set and the dinner done? Had the bus driver waited just for you before closing th ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
1M ago
Palliative care education equips healthcare professionals, caregivers, volunteers and others with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide quality care to people with serious illnesses and their families. There is much to be done to make sure that good quality palliative care education is available across Europe and a new research project aims to help with this. Piret Paal, Philip Larkin, Stephen Mason and Cornelia Brandstötter-Gugg from CODE-YAA@EDU-PC tell us more.
The CODE-YAA team
The World Health Organization identifies that one of the quality indicators for palliative care ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
2M ago
It’s a significant milestone! Mark Taubert, the EAPC’s Vice-President and member of the board of directors, who is also part of our blog editorial team, looks back on twelve years of the EAPC blog, and reveals our five most read blogs.
The EAPC blog publishes engaging, interesting and thought-provoking articles, and provides a weekly online platform for opinion, debate and personal perspectives on palliative care in Europe and beyond. But you knew that already, didn’t you?! But what you might not know is that this month the blog is 12 years old… and that since 2012 the EAPC has publishe ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
2M ago
World Cancer Day is on the 4th February 2024 and it is an international awareness day led by the Union for International Cancer Control. For World Cancer Day 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe has chosen palliative care as the focus of the day. They will host a webinar on 2nd February 2024 to showcase how palliative care can make a significant contribution to the wellbeing of patients and their families. Dr Marilys Corbex, Senior Technical Officer at WHO, tells us more.
Photo credit: EAPC 2019 Photo competition
The necessity of palliative care in can ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
2M ago
Health ministers and high level delegates from the 53 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region, as well as representatives of partner organisations, met in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 24th–26th October 2023 for the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (RC73). Irena Laska, a palliative care nurse working in Albania, was there, and tells us what it was like to be an official delegate at this important meeting.
Irena Laska with Entela Kolovani, Albania’s Deputy Minister for Health.
It was an extraordinary opportunity and real honour for me to represent the ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
3M ago
There are many elements that make up good quality palliative care, but has the importance of healthcare professional communication across teams been underestimated? For Palliative Medicine Editor’s Choice for December 2023, Mary Thelen tells us about her research and a new theory which looks at why relational, versus transactional, connection could make all the difference to patient care.
Photo credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay.
When I practiced as a palliative care specialist in the hospital setting, I worked with people with a life threatening illness to establish an approach to their care that ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
3M ago
In his first Christmas message, Jeroen Hasselaar,the new President of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), reflects on what we can learn from the story of the wounded healer in the context of palliative care.
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These days, we see an increase in armed conflicts across the world and within Europe. We know the suffering this brings to people caught up in these conflicts. It made me wonder how and if wounds can be healed.
The term ‘wounded healer’ came to my mind. The term traces back to Greek mythology, but it is also the title of a book by ..read more
EAPC | The Blog of the European Association of Palliative Care
3M ago
Worldwide we are seeing an increase in the use of technology in a variety of areas, with many of us creating our own digital content. But are we thinking about the ‘digital legacies’ that will remain following death, and what do we really want to happen to them? For Palliative Medicine Editor’s Choice for October 2023, Sarah Stanley tells us about her research into healthcare professional’s understanding about digital legacy.
Photo credit: Centre for Ageing Better
Our digital legacies are growing (1), and it’s important that we start to think about how to manage what we own digitally. I don’t ..read more