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Our blog collection that informs and provides a platform for sharing views, tips, and ideas related to palliative care from community members and health professionals.

What are the needs of parents who have a child in paediatric palliative care?

What we set out to do The goal of paediatric palliative care is to improve the quality of life of children with life-limiting or life-threatening disease and their families through… Read more

Tags: Bereavement / Emotional Support / End of life care / Paediatric Palliative Care / Palliative Care / Psychosocial Support

Palliative care & Parkinson’s: It’s about living well, not just dying well

When my husband was finally diagnosed at 50 with Young Onset Parkinson’s, we were overwhelmed. We were told it was progressive and incurable, but no one mentioned palliative care, let… Read more

Tags: Early Support / Palliative Care / Parkinsons / Quality of Life / YOPX / Young Onset Parkinsons

Community-based end-of-life care for children

Why research in this area is needed When a child is diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, many families express a strong preference for their child to spend their final days… Read more

Tags: Community Care / End of life care / Health Research / Paediatric Palliative Care / Palliative Care / Palliative Care Nurses

Roots, reclaiming and remembrance – how people and families can be supported to consider death as a natural part of life

Humans have been caring for each other in death for thousands of years, long before there was ever a medical model, a notion of care homes or a funeral industry.… Read more

Tags: Death and Dying / Death Literacy / End of life care / Grief and Remembrance / Home Funeral / Natural Death / Palliative Care