Publications
An evaluation of self-management outcomes among chronic care patients in community home-based care programmes in rural Malawi: a 12-month follow-up study Institute of Tropical Medicine
This paper investigates the impact of community home-based care (CHBC) on self-management outcomes for chronically ill patients in rural Malawi. A pre- and post-evaluation survey was administered among 140 chronically ill patients with HIV and non-communicable diseases, newly enrolled in four CHBC programmes. We translated, adapted and administered scales from the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme to evaluate patient's ...
Primary Care and care for older persons: Position Paper of the European Forum for Primary Care KU Leuven
Euthanasia embedded in palliative care. Responses to essentialistic criticisms of the Belgian model of integral end-of-life care Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
The Belgian model of 'integral' end-of-life care consists of universal access to palliative care (PC) and legally regulated euthanasia. As a first worldwide, the Flemish PC organisation has embedded euthanasia in its practice. However, some critics have declared the Belgian-model concepts of 'integral PC' and 'palliative futility' to fundamentally contradict the essence of PC. This article analyses the various essentialistic arguments for the ...