Endcare 2015 - 2018

Endcare 2015 - 2018

An Erasmus+ Project led by the University of Malta ENDCARE 2015 - 2018 There are morally acceptable guidelines, put forward by religious institutions, including the Catholic Church, which can make the end of The Project Aims life more dignified and comfortable. EndCare aims to develop a curriculum The Project Team framework and a complementary care protocol incorporating identified best practice from diverse jurisdictions throughout the EndCare is being run under the auspices of European Union, fully respectful of the About EndCare the Bioethics Research Programme of the ethical, moral, medical and socio-political Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the considerations involved. University of Malta. Professor Pierre Mallia, EndCare is a joint, three-year, research MD, PhD is the project co-ordinator on behalf project between the University of Malta, Dublin A significant amount of analysis and of the University of Malta, which is the lead City University and the University of Aquila, Italy. partner. research, networking, teaching and The project is funded by ERASMUS+ and is evaluation of activities will be required to aimed at educating and alleviating the concerns of The international research team brought complement the research project as a whole. health care professionals on the proper practice of together for the project from across the end of life care through the harmonisation and European Union and beyond includes The project will seek to identify effective dissemination of best practice. Professors Henk ten Have, Renzo Pegoraro, training and political pathways for translating Bert Gordjin, Emmanuel Agius, Francesca The project will bring together leading academic project outcomes into practice throughout the Pistoia, Alireza Bagheri, Anne-Marie Duguet, institutions and researchers, including scholars European Community. Micheal Bone and Chris Gastmans, together from the Pontifical Academy for Life, UNESCO, with other researchers from Ireland, Italy and EthiMed (the network of Mediterranean Malta. Bioethicists), the Fondazione San Raffaele and the Catholic University of Leuven, as well as leading practitioners in the field. It will be addressing the critical issue of end of life Contact Us treatment and, whilst repudiating euthanasia in all its forms, shall examine the shortcomings of Bioethics Research Programme health care professionals, who at one extreme Faculty of Medicine & Surgery may be recommending extraordinary measures of Block A, Level 0, nutrition, hydration and advanced life support Mater Dei Hospital systems at the very end of life and not accepting Tal-Qroqq death as the inevitable outcome, and at the other Msida MSD 2090 extreme not even giving sufficient pain relief for MALTA those who need it for fear of hastening the patient’s demise. [email protected] EndCare Project Team Visit us at: www.um.edu.mt/ms/endcare .

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