Concordance and discordance between patients and family caregivers in palliative care

This study is focused on key factors and/or processes which underpin concordance and/or discordance between patients and family caregivers in decision-making for palliative care; and on how patients and family caregivers manage discordance when deciding about palliative care.

Funders

Irish Research Council New Foundations Award

School of Medicine Research Impact Award

Research Team

Dr Geraldine Foley (PI)

Research Collaborators

Dr Karen Ryan (UCD, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin & St. Francis Hospice Dublin); Dr Regina McQuillan (RCSI, Beaumont Hospital Dublin & St. Francis Hospice Dublin), Prof. Andrew Davies (UCD, TCD, OLHCS), Dr Michael Connolly (UCD, OLHCS), Dr Norma O’Leary (OLHCS & St. James’s Hospital Dublin), Dr Lucy Selman (University of Bristol), Prof. Samar Aoun (Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Australia), Dr John Lombard (UL), Dr Nicola Cornally (UCC), Prof. Suzanne Guerin (UCD), and All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative care (AIIHPC).