Patients in need of palliative care are not recognized until too late, often just a week before their death, as regretted in a statement by the Federation of Palliative Care [...]
Half of the palliative cancer patients still go through medical tests in the last month of their lives. A third of them will still be in the emergency department during this [...]
A ranking of the Economist Intelligence Unit provides an overview of the progress made by countries in managing care at the end of patients’ lives. Belgium ranks fifth. [...]
One of the issues we will face sooner or later is sickness and dying, be it for myself, someone in the family, or friends. In order to make the remaining time as pleasant as [...]
The treatment options for patients with severe chronic organ failure can change several times over the course of a year. There seems to be no clear link between the [...]
The hospital of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), UZ Brussel, announces on Friday that it is now registering palliative sedatives, a treatment aimed at relieving pain and [...]
The hypothesis that legalization of euthanasia slows down the development of palliative care is not supported by experiences in the Benelux. On the contrary, legislation [...]
The financial resources will be spent on the implementation of the quality framework for palliative care, which will apply to all professionals in the care sector. The [...]
The aim of the national communication campaign is to free up the voice and approach it in a more peaceful way: “The end of life, and when we have talked about it? [...]
Palliative care is often only activated at the end of life. New research shows that it is useful to do this earlier. I palliative? That word scared the hell out of me’. [...]
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