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EAPC projects or Taskforces
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Palliative
Care for older People: Better Practice – an EAPC
Task Force
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Populations
in European and other developed countries are ageing, and
more people are now living with the effects of serious chronic
illnesses towards the end of life. Meeting their needs presents
a public health challenge. A new EAPC task force was established
in September 2007 aiming to improve palliative and end of
life care for older people by publishing a high profile appraisal
of examples of good and promising practice around Europe,
along with feasible recommendations for care, research and
education that will be widely influential in Europe and beyond.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this project is to develop a new WHO guide to promote
better palliative care and end of life care for older people.
The WHO guides Palliative
Care: The Solid Facts (Davies & Higginson,
2004) and Better
Palliative Care for Older People (Davies
& Higginson, 2004) explain why health services should
provide good quality palliative care for older people, with
a brief outline of how it could be improved. This project
seeks to build on these guides to provide examples of better
palliative care practice, to aid those involved in planning
and supporting care-orientated services in the most appropriate
and effective way. The new guide will include links to information
in other WHO guides and provide brief case studies of good
and promising practice along with evidence of their effectiveness
and, were possible, cost-effectiveness. The generalisability
of the examples to other contexts, cultures, and health care
systems will be considered. It will conclude with recommendations
for care in different settings, for education and research.
A group of international contributors are participating in
planning and developing the guide. The project is funded by
the Maruzza Lefebvre D’Ovidio Foundation.
DO YOU KNOW OF EXAMPLES OF BETTER
PRACTICE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE GUIDE?
We
are conducting a continuing call for examples of better practice
in palliative care for older people for a new WHO guide –
Palliative Care for Older People: Better Practice.
If
you know of an example which you would like to be considered
for the guide, please read the information
sheet, complete the form
and return it to us according to instructions in the information
letter by 30th July 2008. We are grateful for helping
us with this project.
Contact
If you would like more information about the project or have
any questions please contact Sreeparna Chattopadhyay (sreeparna.chattopadhyay@kcl.ac.uk);
tel: +44(0)207 848 5523)
Members
The steering group:
Professor Irene Higginson (UK)
Dr Sue Hall (UK)
Dr Massimo Costantini (Italy)
Dr Agis Tsouros (WHO Europe)
Professor Vittorio Ventafridda (Italy)
Ms Anna Kolliakou (UK)
Advisory
Group:
Dr Elizabeth Davies (UK)
Dr Carl Johan Fürst (Sweden)
Professor Giovanni Gambassi (Italy)
Professor Stein Kaasa (Norway)
Dr Phil Larkin (Eire)
Dr Lukas Radbruch (Germany)
Dr Florian Strasser (Switzerland)
Professor Joan Teno (USA)
Scientific
Group:
Professor Simon Biggs (UK)
Ms Heidi Blumhuber (Italy)
Ms Mary Callaway (USA)
Professor David Clarke UK)
Dr Franco DeConno (Italy)
Dr Luc Deliens (Belgium)
Dr John Ellershaw (UK)
Dr Marilene Filbet (France)
Professor Ilora Finlay (UK)
Dr Kathleen Foley (US)
Dr Katherine Froggatt (UK)
Ms Barbara Gomez (Portugal)
Professor Claude Jasmin (France)
Professor Anica Jusic (Croatia)
Dr Judy Ling (Eire)
Dr Joanne Lynn (USA)
Professor Mike Richards (UK)
Also
visit:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/medicine/depts/palliative/pubs/rrr/pcop.html
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