María Florencia Martínez, winner of the 2nd iLIVE Project Short Story Competition in Spanish
The II Short Story Competition, 'Stories full of life', which is part of the dissemination activities of the iLIVE project, held its...
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THE LATEST UPDATES FROM THE iLIVE CONSORTIUM
iLIVE Project
- Sep 4
- 1 min
The iLIVE project short stories contest extends the period until September 22
The iLIVE Project short stories contest in English extends the period to submit stories until September 22. This English language edition...
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Over 70% of palliative care patients would like death to be more openly discussed in society
The European Day of Palliative Care was celebrated on June 15th 2023. This day´s main objective is to raise awareness of the importance...
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Live the life you please: living and dying in Australia
What a better way to change your views than to be open to know other's points of view? Talking about death and dying is a taboo topic,...
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iLIVE Project
- May 18
- 2 min
The final steps for the iLIVE Project, set in a meeting in Cologne
The iLIVE Project is facing the end of the research with the sight in the final goals and objectives of this initiative. The research has...
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iLIVE Project
- May 3
- 2 min
iLIVE Project results will be shared in Malaga (Spain) this month
The iLIVE Project is part of the program for the Summer School that is organized each year by the International Collaborative For Best...
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iLIVE Project
- Mar 31
- 2 min
Rafael Ruiz: "Sometimes we want to be very interventionist and what is needed is emotional maturity"
Rafa Ruiz has been a volunteer at Fundación Cudeca for more than eight years, but in recent months he has taken on a new challenge:...
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iLIVE Project
- Mar 6
- 8 min
Dying rituals around the globe
We are presenting in the iLIVE Project website images from the exhibition 'Worldwide Dying Rituals, presented by the photographer Heleen...
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iLIVE Project
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Stine Solheim: "Knowing what happens has given me a greater understanding about life and death"
The Volunteer of the mponth travels to Norway in Februrary, where we meet Stine Solheim, volunteer at Haukeland University Hospital in...
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iLIVE Project
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Lia Peters "The most important lesson I learned is to have a 'listening ear'!"
In January the Volunteer of the Month series in the iLIVE Project travels to the Netherlands to meet Lia Peters, that is taking part as...
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iLIVE Project
- Jan 11
- 1 min
The Lancet Commission of the value of death
Last year the Lancet held a webinar on the value of death. The main message was one very similar to the iLive Project: normalize death....
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Brian Kiernan: “I believe that we are all responsible for each other”
Our volunteer of the month in December is Brian Kiernan, from the Palliative Care Unit in Liverpool, one of the centers taking part in...
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
The Dementia Walk Netherlands will raise money for research
On Saturday December 17th, 2022 a Memory Walk will be hosted in Rotterdam, NL to raise money for Dementia research. The research is being...
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
The iLIVE Project research, ready for the end of the project in 2023
For the iLIVE Project, 2023 will mean the culmination of a journey started three years ago. The recent consortium meeting held in...
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
iLIVE Project celebrates International Volunteers Day
International Volunteer Day is celebrated every 5 December. As volunteering is an important part of our research, the iLIVE Project has...
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iLIVE Project
- Nov 25, 2022
- 5 min
Mercedes Vega: There is nothing like being near the end to learn a lot about the journey
We start a series of interviews with volunteers working for the different teams within the iLIVE Project to know more about their...
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iLIVE Project
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
The iLIVE Project, at a conference about economics of Palliative Care in Oslo
The iLIVE Project was present at the biannual conference of the European Health Economics Associations’ (EuHea). The event focused on...
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iLIVE Project
- Jul 4, 2022
- 1 min
“It is quite a challenge to assume your position in the world as a scientist.”
Judith Rietjens from Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, opens up about her own experiences becoming a researcher. As a titan in the palliative care...
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iLIVE Project
- May 5, 2022
- 1 min
Development of the Dutch Structure for Integrated Children’s Palliative Care
This article outlines the history and implementation of children’s palliative care (CPC) in the Netherlands. Children are complex little...
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iLIVE Project
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
Dutch Vs. Japanese End of Life Care
Preferences in end of life care substantially differ between the Netherlands and Japan: Results from a cross-sectional survey study...
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iLIVE Project
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
Umetniški projekt in sodelovanje z raziskavo iLIVE
Fotograf Matija Tomc, tudi prostovoljec pri slovenskem društvu Hospic, je zbral desetčlansko ekipo za pilotni projekt Soočanje s smrtjo,...
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
Family support: a key element in Palliative Care
Everyone can state the importance of the family in our emotional well-being. Along with friendships, it is one of the greatest psychological
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
The iLIVE Project launches a new website for citizen participation
The iLIVE Project, live well, die well, the international research project on best care for people with advanced and terminal...
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
The Cohort Study: A way to know more about our preferences about death and dying
One of the main aspects of the iLIVE Project is that we want to make a difference. We want to create a better environment in Palliative...
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iLIVE Project
- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Death cafe: Talking about demise to remove the taboo and face dying with serenity
A Death Cafe is configured therefore, as an informal space, in a friendly atmosphere in which we can dare to talk about an element that is u
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iLIVE Project
- Nov 9, 2021
- 2 min
The iLIVE Project enters the most exciting phase of its work
The iLIVE Project is now entering the most exciting phase of its work. With the bases for each of the Work Packages already fully stablished
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 6, 2021
- 5 min
The iLIVE Project is present in the EAPC Congress with three different posters presented
The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) has started today its 17th World Congress Online. Under the motto 'Exploring new dimensi
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
"Optimizing patients' medication use may improve their quality of life"
Lia Van Zuylen is the head of Work Package 2 (WP2) for the iLIVE Project. This group is tasked with the realization of a Medication Study, o
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
The iLIVE Project will be present in the EAPC Congress in october
The EAPC, The European Association for Palliative Care, will held its 17th World Congress next autumn. The meeting, that will be presented o
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Reaching the scientific community, a vital part of our project
Our goal, then, is to change the policies, the very core of the regulations that dictate how terminal diseases are treated in our hospitals.
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
The iLIVE Project helds a new Consortium Meeting
A new Consortium Meeting will take place this month to help the iLIVE Project achieve its goals for the next few months.
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iLIVE Project
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
The iLIVE Project is ready to start collecting data in spite of the Covid pandemic
The last consortium meeting for the iLIVE Project, that took place in November, set the ground for the work that will be achieved during...
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iLIVE Project
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Working with volunteers in end of life care: how we decided on the items for the training
An important part of the work in the iLIVE Project involves a group research to develop an international programme to train volunteers to...
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 27, 2020
- 1 min
Help us make a difference in the Covid pandemic
In iLIVE Project we are working in a new study to help us understand the impact of the Covid 19 pandemics. We are conducting two...
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Cohort Study, ready to start
The Covid 19 crisis has produced an important delay in the planned activities of the iLIVE Project, both because of the emergency...
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iLIVE Project
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
The iLIVE Project will learn from the Covid crisis to reach better end of life care
The ongoing Covid-19 crisis is making a big impact in health systems all around the world. More than ten million people have been...
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iLIVE Project
- May 13, 2020
- 2 min
Fischer: "High-quality research providing robust evidence is vital to ensure best possible care"
One of the centers taking part in our research, the Medical University of Vienna, is conducting research on economic aspects of health...
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iLIVE Project
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
Agnes van der Heide: “We need to learn from the experience of COVID-19 now”
The coordinator of the iLIVE Project, Agnes Van der Heide, talks about the situation of the iLIVE Project and the changes that will come...
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iLIVE Project
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
Liverpool hosts the training session for the coordinators of the volunteer program
Work Package 3 in the iLIVE Project will create teams of specially trained volunteers and set them to work on wards in acute hospitals
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iLIVE Project
- Jan 15, 2020
- 2 min
iLIVE will be one of the subjects covered in the International Collaborative’s Summer School
The volunteer study in iLIVE Project will be present in the next edition of the International Collaborative’s Summer School
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 19, 2019
- 7 min
Our meeting in Bergen: Preparation to start the different studies in 2020
In 2020, the iLIVE Project will start the three main activities: the cohort study, the medication study and the volunteer study
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
The development of cultural norms for the iLIVE Project, in a conference in Bergen
The meeting of the International Collaborative for the for Best care for the Dying person included a presentation from the slovenian team
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iLIVE Project
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
The iLIVE Project was presented at the 3rd Slovenian Congress of Palliative Care
On 26th of October, researchers from Klinik Golnik presented the iLIVE project at the 3rd Slovenian Congress of Palliative Care.
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iLIVE Project
- Nov 25, 2019
- 1 min
The iLIVE Project was presented at the X Argentine Congress of Medicine and Palliative Care
The iLIVE Project was presented at the X Argentine Congress of Medicine and Palliative Care that was held recently in the city of Salta
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 31, 2019
- 1 min
The Medical University of Vienna, in the 9th International Seminar of the PRC
The iLive project was present in the 9th International Seminar of the Palliative Care Research Centre (PRC) with Claudia Fischer
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 24, 2019
- 2 min
Patients and volunteers: what was decided in the last meeting
In the last meeting, held in the slovenian city of Bled in June, the team discussed vari topics that are crucial to start working
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 24, 2019
- 1 min
iLIVE took part in the European Researchers Night
The iLive Project was present in the European Reasearchers Night alongside the IBIMA, the Biomedical Research Institute in Malaga.
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 3, 2019
- 8 min
Know more about the different teams working on the project
The iLive Project is an international effort. Thirteen teams are working together in nine different aspects of the project
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 2, 2019
- 3 min
Interview with iLIVE Project Coordinator Agnes Van der Heide
Interview with iLive Project Coordinator Agnes Van Heide
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iLIVE Project
- Oct 2, 2019
- 5 min
iLIVE Kick-off meeting
The iLIVE research project ambitions to impact on the experience of dying at clinical, public health and societal level
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