Palliative care is typically presented to the public as being “high touch” and “low tech”. However, through digital technologies, palliative care is set to become both: high touch and high tech.
This is why the research project NeDiPal aims to understand and improve the usage of digital technologies – defined as software, hardware, and supporting infrastructures – for palliative care by professionals, patients, relatives and other informal caregivers.
NeDiPal uses an innovative approach by analyzing the co-production of care work between palliative home care providers and care recipients, relatives, and other informal caregivers through the lens of Luhmannian systems theory.
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The project was presented at a joint meeting of the end-of-life care research groups of Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The group is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
NeDiPal received approval from the Commissie Medische Ethiek (CME) of the Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Brussel. With that, it completed the Green Light procedure.
On April 28th, Anna Bauer presented NeDiPal at VUB's Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise.