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.

Studies of adult and child social care in Czech and Slovak republics: English edition of their journal

A newly published edition of the journal Czech and Slovak Social Work fully in English demonstrates what an interesting range of research is going in on countries that one hears little about, because they don't write in English. this one includes studies of domiciliary social care, how palliative care staff  cope with the fact that their patients die, an account of Czech and Slovak social care in the 1970s and '80s (just before the transition of Western-style democratic government) and Czech childcare policy.

The link: Czech and Slovak Social Work: English edition