What to do to make quality palliative care the standard, not a fluke? Jiří Krejčí from Pallia.

Jiří Krejčí, founder of the Pallium Institute

"Let's change the reality for people who have a serious illness and who are grieving; to make it more bearable for them" - this is the vision of Jiří Krejčí from Palio.

Ten years ago, almost no one was involved in palliative care in this country. And in another ten years, we may have a system that actually cares about and responds to the needs of the dying.

And it is thanks to Pallium: an organisation that helps palliative care professionals. He wants to change it for the better. To make quality palliative care the standard, not the luck of the draw.

But how to do it?

In hospital palliative care teams, for example, there is no one who is purely dedicated to the bereaved: everyone tries to do this in some way, but it is beyond their own specialisation and usually beyond their time allocation.

Police interventionists are not allowed to recommend paid help - bereavement counsellors, therapists and the like. Many people don't even know there is help for them.

One solution is to find a way to pay for bereavement assistance with state money. Another is to involve lay people to form self-help groups for the bereaved.

How can mourners help others?

Do people even know what they can ask for when they die?

And can we really help palliative care patients and their survivors?

This episode of our podcast is interesting mainly for experts. Let's see - how many listeners do we have from the palliative care field? Our Oleg Vojtíšek with Jiří Krejčí from Pallia on Spotify!

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