Thursday 3 January 2013

End-of-life care course for generalist social workers in Serbia

The European Association for Palliative Care reports on the development of a social work course on end-of-life in Serbia; it's a two-day course for non-specialised social workers. It's part of a bigger project to develop what I hope will be end-of-life care rather than palliative care in Serbia. There is currently one hospice.

My view is they should go for developing community health and social care that helps everyone who is approaching death, not just focusing on the medical preference for providing palliative care only for people that they have diagnosed as immediately dying. So it's good to see training for generalists, rather than specialists.

Link to the EAPC Report.

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