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Position Paper on the Role of Social Workin Specialist Palliative Care in Ireland

This position paper highlights the essential role social workers in SPC play in addressing the complex needs of patients and their families within adult palliative care services, which Tzvetanova (2024) notes as some of life’s most challenging moments. It identifies key opportunities for development, to strengthen service delivery and meet the growing demands of an aging and increasingly diverse population.

Guidance for Bereavement Support

In this document we outline the bereavement support needs of patients and their families as part of a continuum of care from illness into bereavement. We review current understandings of the grief and loss experience in the context of research, guidance and policy. This informs the evidence-based guidance for social workers in their support of patients and their families within specialist palliative care services.

Irish Association for Palliative Care

The Irish Association for Palliative Care (IAPC) is a Collective and Expert Voice for Palliative Care in Ireland. The support a number of forums and groups including the Nursing Forum, Pharmacy Forum, Ethics Forum and the Education and Research Forum

Navigating Uncertainty in Palliative Care Practice Webinar recording

This webinar provided an up-to-date overview of the literature on uncertainty, as well as evidence-based, patient-centred strategies to help clinicians understand and navigate uncertainty more effectively in clinical practice.

AIIHPC Scoping Report – Access to palliative and end of life care for people with learning disability and people experiencing homelessness in Northern Ireland.

This scoping work, undertaken by AIIHPC, in partnership with the Public Health Agency and Palliative Care in Partnership, focuses on two groups who are often underserved within existing systems and structures: people with learning disability and people experiencing homelessness. Across Northern Ireland, there is growing recognition of the importance of equitable access to palliative and end of life care for all members of our communities. This includes recognising and responding to the experiences of people who may face additional barriers in accessing services, support and meaningful conversations about care, illness, dying and bereavement.

Positively Palliative: Stories of Care, Loss and Love Book (AIIHPC)

Compassionate Communities Position Paper

Position Paper developed by Queen’s University Belfast.
The paper puts forward nine recommendations. It emphasises the need for a mandate for fostering a compassionate communities approach at local government level. This would recognise that caregiving, dying, death and grieving should not be the role responsibility of health and social care.

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