A very belated Happy New Year to you all! We have our first pubTALK of 2019 coming up on Monday 11th February, 7 for 7.30pm at the Old Buttermarket, Burgate Canterbury. Our speaker is Professor David Oliver from the Tizard Centre, and the title of his talk is, ‘Palliative care – not just for cancer?’. David writes:
Palliative care is the active support of people with life threatening illness, considering all aspects of care – physical, psychological, social and spiritual. It is often associated with the care of people with advanced cancer, although when St Christopher’s Hospice was opened in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders, patients with other diagnoses were admitted.
My interest has been in the development of palliative care of people with neurological disease and my research and publications has been on this developing field, particularly for people with motor neurone disease. This pubTALK will look at this area and how palliative care, in hospices, hospitals and the community, is developing to care for people with any disease.
Do come and join us – entry is free – and it would be lovely to see some of you there!