Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Poland and Eastern Europe
Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Poland and Eastern Europe
Hospice and palliative care in Central and Eastern European countries benefits from volunteers involved in a variety of services. The variety of volunteering across the region reflects diverse political, economic, and legal situations in post-communist countries. Poland led palliative care in the 1980s with other countries following in the 1990s. Polish palliative care started with volunteers, the Catholic Church and the country’s first non-governmental organizations running home centres with care incorporated into health care systems after the democratic changes of 1989. That brought financing from the national health insurance with a greater role for paid staff. Poland has played a leading role in the Central and Eastern Europe in the development of palliative care and hospice volunteering. Volunteers across the region now work together with paid staff in various forms of hospice and palliative care centres providing patient care, psychosocial support, and are engaged in charity work, fundraising, and education.
Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, democratic transformation, history of medicine, hospice and palliative care, hospice volunteering, law, Poland, volunteers
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