BEREAVEMENT AFTER CANCER-RELATED DEATH: A LONGITUDINAL MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH (BE-CARED PROJECT) Ghent University
Background
More than 27.000 cancer patients die each year of cancer in Belgium (Van Eyken et al., 2017). Bereavement care should be an essential part of palliative care (Morris & Block, 2015). However, palliative care services still adopt a blanket approach to supporting bereaved families regardless of risk or need (Abbott, O’Connor & Payne, 2008; Agnew, Manktelow, Taylor & Jones, 2010; Guldin et al. 2013, Gotze et al. ...