Research Project

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.

Latest News

Project Website Launched

After several months of preparation, the NeDiPal-project website was launched. This article will explain how it was made and what it will be used for in the coming years.


Latest Publications

  • news-article

    Seven new MSCA Fellows strengthen research at VUB

    Vrije Universiteit Brussel / vub.be / Read more
  • news-article

    Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship eingeworben von Dr. Anna Bauer

    Department of Sociology / soziologie.lmu.de / Read more
  • presentation

    NeDiPal project presentation at the research group Tempus Omnia Revelat (TOR)

    Vrije Universiteit Brussel /

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