PR - The PHPCI Conference 2022 and the Nodes City Festival join forces No images? Click here PR - The PHPCI Conference 2022 and the NODES CITY Festival join forcesFrom 20 to 23 September, a total of 370 conferences participants from all over the world found their way to Bruges. The focus of the 7th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference was upon the dialogue between science and citizens concerning the democratisation of palliative and end-of-life care. Death, suffering and grieving are often taboo subjects in our society. This conference sought to identify a solution to this issue – how can compassionate communities, such as Compassionate Bruges, help to break through this taboo and make sure that serious illness, family care, dying and grieving appear higher up policymakers' agendas?
This is exactly what Bruges, along with the support of the VUB, wants to focus on. The PHPCI Conference is held concurrently with the city festival.
About PHPCI The End-of-Life Care Research Group (VUB/Ghent University) is hosting the conference and brings together leading innovators, researchers, practitioners, policymakers and civil society representatives in the field of palliative care. About Compassionate Bruges In 2020, Bruges was the first city in Belgium to become a 'Compassionate City'. With Compassionate Bruges, we want to give loss, death, grief, mourning, situations of serious illness and long-term (informal) care a place in our city. We want to connect people with each other and strengthen existing initiatives and organisations so that Bruges can become even more of a caring city and a city in which people stand by and support each other. Info for editors Contact: We forward you this press release for your information. You are free to copy this text when stating the following: 'Source: Visit Bruges Convention Bureau'. |