How equity-oriented is Palliative Care? Upcoming Hood Fellow lecture
Professor Kelli Stajduhar
Te Arai Palliative and End of Life Research Group warmly invite you to attend a Hood Fellowship lecture from Professor Kelli Stajduhar at the University of Auckland, Grafton Campus
Title: How Equity-Oriented Is Palliative Care?
Date: 13 March 2024
Time: Drinks at 5pm, lecture begins at 6pm
Venue: Grafton Atrium and 505-011
RSVP: For catering purposes, please register at https://Equityinpalliativecare.eventbrite.co.nz
While increasingly recognized as a human right, access to palliative care is still not a given. Indeed, access to the services involved, from medical to social to psychological to spiritual, is uneven across the Global North. Even though palliative care as a concept seems to be unanimously supported, that is what it remains: an idea that only becomes reality for fewer than half of the people who might benefit. Those who do benefit from palliative care services tend to also benefit from high socio-economic status and family support, as opposed to those people facing the end-of-life who also face inequities like homelessness, poverty, isolation, racism, and stigma. This presentation will address the question: How equity-oriented is palliative care? Doing so will reveal potential “blind spots” that have allowed us to privilege some in need of care, and render ‘others’ who are dying to be less visible in the context of palliative care.
Dr. Kelli Stajduhar is a 2024 Hood Fellow. The Hood Fellowship supports leading international academics to visit the University of Auckland to challenge and inspire research. She is a professor in the School of Nursing and Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria in Canada. She has worked in oncology, palliative care, and gerontology for 30 years as a practicing nurse, educator, and researcher. She is lead investigator on multiple research projects including international research collaboratives on family caregiving, integration of a palliative approach to care across health sectors and studies on access to palliative and end-of-life care for people facing structural vulnerabilities.
While in New Zealand, Dr Stajduhar will also be working with Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group as part of a Royal Society of New Zealand Catalyst Seeding Grant.