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What does the future of palliative care look like?

8 Jul 2021

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North West England

By Dr Nwosu, Research Lead at the Marie Curie Hospice, Liverpool

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What technological developments will have an impact on how we care for people towards the end of their lives? And how can we make sure they keep people's individual needs at the heart of how they work?
In this short series of videos, I'll be exploring these questions and more by introducing a few of the big themes that are coming down the line – starting with smart tech.

What to do about smart tech?

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Research in this area in future needs to have lots of voices in it. It needs to have the patient, the professional, the engineer and the ethicist.
Dr Ami Nwosu

Should we use personalised medicine?

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The risk of not being aware of what's going on in personalised medicine is that when people who are having personalised oncology treatments hit palliative care, it's going to feel like they're going into the dark ages. 
Dr Ami Nwosu

What's the future of medicine in palliative care?

Watch: What's the future of medicine in palliative care? Watch: What's the future of medicine in palliative care? 

It could be that we're giving smaller or bigger doses to people based on their genetic code. 
Dr Ami Nwosu
Watch this space for more from Dr Nwosu on the future of palliative care.
Published: 8 Jul 2021
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