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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Latest News
From Preparation to Fieldwork
After several months of preparation, the data collection phase of the research project is set to begin in October. It is expected to continue until early 2027.
Analytical Strategies: Constructing NeDiPal's Knowledge
As the university is now in the midst of its summer break, it is certainly time to take a little bit of distance and ponder the more profound questions: Where and how can research begin?
Presentation of NeDiPal to Leading End-of-Life Care Researchers in Belgium
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.
Latest Publications
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Seven new MSCA Fellows strengthen research at VUB
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Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship eingeworben von Dr. Anna Bauer
Department of Sociology / soziologie.lmu.de / Read more -
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NeDiPal project presentation at the research group Tempus Omnia Revelat (TOR)
