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updated: 7 December 2009
EAPC projects or Taskforces
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Task Force on Physiotherapy in Palliative Care
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“Physiotherapists in Palliative Care working together to compare and develop best practice and encourage core curriculum debate”
Dowload Task force proposal form here
Download here the programme of the Physiotherapy Premeeting "Physiotherapy in Palliative Care" hold at the 11th EAPC congress hold in Vienna
Aims:
- Defining and describing the role of physiotherapists in Palliative Care
- Developing and organizing international education and training for physiotherapists in Palliative Care
- Setting up an international Specialist Interest Group (SIG) with supporting website
- Encouraging debate on curriculum standardisation
Members:
Chair:
Jenny Taylor, Head Physiotherapist, St. Christopher´s Hospice London, UK
Ylva Dahlin, Senior Physiotherapist, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Nóra Ferdinandy, Senior Physiotherapist, Hungarian Hospice Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
Tone-Lise Frantzen, Special Physiotherapist, Sunniva klinikk Haraldsplass Diakonale Sykehus, Bergen, Norway
Claúdia Maia e Moura, Physiotherapist, Lumiar Health Center, Lisboa, Portugal
Peter Nieland, Senior Physiotherapist, Malteser Hospital, Bonn, Germany
Rainer Simader, Senior Physiotherapist, St. Christopher's Hospice, London, United Kingdom
Jacob van den Broek, Physiotherapist in Palliative Care, Hospice Kuria, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project Milestones:
- Inaugural 2-day conference for international physiotherapists at St Christopher’s Hospice Nov 25/26 2010
- Collating international Physiotherapy in Palliative Care curricula 2010/2011
- Developing an EAPC weblink for physiotherapists in time for EAPC Congress 2011
Project summary:
The proposal is to develop a network of physiotherapists in palliative care throughout Europe, and internationally.
Building on strong links made at the EAPC Conference in Vienna 2009, a working group plans to bring together expertise from around the world to raise the profile of physiotherapy in palliative care through identifying clinical best practice and service innovation.
The encouragement of debate and discussion on all aspects of treatment approaches will hopefully lay the foundation for contributing to the collaborative development of a more coordinated curriculum delivery in physiotherapy training institutions.
Working towards defining a ‘global’ definition of Physiotherapy in Palliative Care.
Other Institutions proposed for collaboration:
St Christopher´s Hospice London
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