On 14 June 2023 the second meeting of the Palliative Care Around the World network took place at Leiden University. The meeting was organized by Dr. Natashe Lemos Dekker and Prof. Jeannette Pols with support from the ERC project Globalizing Palliative Care.’ The participants presented their research on palliative care in a variety of contexts, …
In June, Globalizing Palliative Care project members Hanum Atikasari and Natashe Lemos Dekker attended the 18th European Association for Palliative Care congress in Rotterdam. Lemos Dekker presented the preliminary results of the project’s case studies in Brazil and Indonesia. In this presentation we have demonstrated that community-based initiatives reveal how local values are included in …
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In the seminarPalliative Care Around the World an interdisciplinary group of speakers will address ongoing research on palliative care in a variety of contexts, including Brazil, UK, Japan, Indonesia, among others. The seminar will be on Wednesday 14 June from 10:00 to 16:00 in Leiden. Natashe Lemos Dekker is the organiser of the seminar and …
In the symposium ‘For the time being – temporality, ethics, aging: Conversations between anthropology, art and philosophy’ the main question is: How do temporal perspectives on lived time and time left change with old age and what are the roles of inter-and intra-generational dynamics in elderly’s perspectives on past, present and future life challenges and horizons? In her presentation, Natashe Lemos Dekker shed light on the divergent temporalities that are at play in requesting euthanasia with dementia in the Netherlands. Particularly, she addresses the use of written statements that describe the wish for euthanasia of the person with dementia as a tool to resolve temporal dissonances and transfer responsibility to family members.