From October 10 to 12, 2025, the 10th Chinese Contemporary Thanatology Conference was successfully held at Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau. With the theme “Chinese Thanatology in a Global Perspective”, the conference brought together experts and scholars from China and abroad to explore cutting-edge topics in life education, end-of-life care, and humanistic care.
At the invitation of the conference, Li Rong and Luo Yaqi from the Department of Radiation Oncology of the First Affiliated Hospital (FAH) of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) traveled to Macau to attend the symposium and delivered a presentation titled “Chinese Nurses’ Perspectives on Family Information Needs During the Transition to Home-Based End-of-Life Care”. Drawing on nursing practice and research findings, the presentation analyzed the characteristics and cultural sensitivities of families’ information needs during the transition to hospice care, and examined the vital role of nurses in information identification, communication and coordination, and humanistic companionship, garnering attention and active discussion from participating experts.
During the interactive session, Li Xiang, a lecturer at Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, and Fu Xia, Director of the Department of Nursing at the Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, engaged in in-depth exchanges with the two speakers on the reports’ contents, affirmed the innovation and practical significance of the studies, and presented conference speaker certificates to Li Rong and Luo Yaqi.
This participation not only showcased the FAH’s research achievements in palliative care and end-of-life care, and humanistic nursing, but also further strengthened academic exchanges with nursing education and research institutions across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao region, contributing the FAH’s efforts to advancing the development of life education and palliative care.
