Palliative care enables people with serious illnesses, and their unpaid/family carers, to maintain their quality of life and reduce suffering at any stage of a chronic, progressive, long-term or life-limiting condition. It can be provided in a range of settings including hospitals, hospices, long-term care facilities, and in the home.
End-of-life care provides support for people who are in the last months or years of their life. It also supports unpaid/family carers beyond this, into bereavement.
The Palliative and End-of-Life Care theme (PEoLC) undertakes, and uses, applied research to improve PEoLC for patients and their unpaid/family carers in any setting.
Activity:
We are working with, and building on, our established collaborations across universities, service providers and practitioners regionally and nationally to ensure grounded relevance, dissemination, and implementation of research. This includes developing and testing interventions to optimise care, undertaking and implementing research where it is needed, and co-leading the national cross-ARC PEoLC collaboration with South London ARC, involving clinicians, national charities, and researchers nationally.’
