A new scale for faster identification of palliative patients
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 [...]
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Too often, palliative cancer patients still receive inappropriate care: dying, and yet another treatment.
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 [...]
Belgium, the fifth best place to die?
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. [...]
I need palliative care
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 [...]
“Palliative preferences tend to change.
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 [...]
A new method of end-of-life care, a Belgian first at the UZ Brussel.
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 [...]
“Better palliative care for legal euthanasia.
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 [...]
More money and attention for palliative care
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 end of life, let’s talk about it.
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? [...]
Early palliative care improves quality of life
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’. [...]