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
Ethics Approval and Green Light for NeDiPal
NeDiPal received approval from the Commissie Medische Ethiek (CME) of the Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Brussel. With that, it completed the Green Light procedure.
NeDiPal at the Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise
On April 28th, Anna Bauer presented NeDiPal at VUB's Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise.
Research and Plans
Current work on the research project consists mostly of organising and planning. Of course, organising palliative care is about organising something very different from organising research projects. However, when one takes a degree of analytical distance through theoretical abstraction, the relevance of planning across all organisational tasks becomes apparent.
Latest Publications
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Seven new MSCA Fellows strengthen research at VUB
Vrije Universiteit Brussel / vub.be / Read more -
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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)
