Background/Objectives: Palliative care (PC) has traditionally focused on patients with cancer and their families. However, individuals living with advanced non-malignant chronic diseases and their caregivers face comparable challenges that significantly affect their quality of life. This study aimed to explore the PC needs of patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions through the lived experiences of both patients and their informal caregivers. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight patients and nine caregivers recruited via the Municipality of Katerini “Help at Home” program (Jan–Mar 2025). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim (in Greek), and analyzed inductively using reflexive thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from the International Hellenic University (Ref. No. 18/22.12.2022), and official consent was gained from the Municipality of Katerini (Approval Ref. No. 7803-/30/01/2025). Results: Five themes emerged: (1) basic daily care and physical support; (2) psychosomatic and emotional impact; (3) social withdrawal and role change; (4) support systems and coping resources; and (5) experience with the healthcare system and organized care. Participants highlighted urgent needs for home-based physiotherapy/nursing, caregiver respite, and psychological support. Coping and resilience-related resources—expressed through family support, familiarity of the home environment, and spirituality—were described as essential mechanisms that helped dyads sustain home care and shaped how needs were experienced across multiple domains, particularly amid service gaps. Conclusions: These findings document complex, interlinked needs among patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions and their caregivers and support the development of community-based, integrated PC services. Larger, multicenter studies and the development/validation of a needs-assessment tool are recommended.

Background/Objectives: Palliative care (PC) has traditionally focused on patients with cancer and their families. However, individuals living with advanced non-malignant chronic diseases and their caregivers face comparable challenges that significantly affect their quality of life. This study aimed to explore the PC needs of patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions through the lived experiences of both patients and their informal caregivers. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight patients and nine caregivers recruited via the Municipality of Katerini “Help at Home” program (Jan–Mar 2025). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim (in Greek), and analysed inductively using thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from the International Hellenic University (Ref. No. 18/22.12.2022), and official consent was gained from the Municipality of Katerini (Approval Ref. No. 7803-/30/01/2025). Results: Five themes emerged: (1) Basic daily care and physical support; (2) Psychosomatic and emotional impact; (3) Social withdrawal and role change; (4) Support systems and sources of resilience; and (5) Experience with the healthcare system and organized care. Participants highlighted urgent needs for home-based physiotherapy/nursing, caregiver respite, and psychological support. Resilience—expressed through family bonds, spirituality, and adaptive coping—also emerged as a cross-cutting dimension influencing how these needs were experienced across all domains. Conclusions: These findings document complex, interlinked needs among patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions and their caregivers and support the development of community-based, integrated PC services. Larger, multicenter studies and the development/validation of a needs-assessment tool are recommended.

While living kidney donation is considered safe and beneficial, long-term psychosocial donor outcomes remain under-explored, particularly regarding donor-recipient relationships and caregiving dimensions. This study examined quality of life (QoL) and psychological outcomes among 713 living kidney donors from two major European transplant centers, assessing QoL, anxiety, depression and somatization alongside donor-recipient relationship types, caregiver role, caregiving burden and perceived responsibility for the recipient’s health. After adjusting for gender, age, center and time since donation, relationship type was not associated with physical wellbeing, but was linked to lower mental wellbeing in spouse donors compared to child-to parent and other genetically related donors. Caregiver role was linked to lower mental wellbeing and increased anxiety, caregiving burden with higher somatization, and perceived responsibility for recipient’s health with higher depression. Identified differences in mental health between centers likely reflect cultural and organisational characteristics, while differences in wellbeing linked to older age and time since donation are eventually understood within ageing processes. Conclusively, caregiving burden and perceived responsibility for the recipient’s health emerged as key predictors of psychological distress, while the effect of relationship type on wellbeing remains inconclusive. While most donors demonstrate good psychosocial outcomes, at-risk subgroups warrant appropriate attention prior and after donation.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the subjective experiences of clients who have shifted from face-to-face treatment to online psychotherapy due to pandemic restrictions or personal reasons. The researchers applied qualitative research methods. Fifteen people between 19 and 55 years old participated in the research, of which 13 were women. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using IPA. Online psychotherapy compared to face-to-face treatment shows a lot of resemblance for the majority of the sample, but it cannot replace it. The experienced deficits that emerge from the comparison between online and in-person therapy and are attributed to aspects inherent to the online setting: the lack of physical proximity, limited embodied interaction, the interference of the camera, the partial dissolution of the professional context, issues of privacy and confidentiality, the lack of commuting as a ritualized embodied dimension of psychotherapy, that helps process and integrate the therapeutic experience. The value of the already established therapeutic alliance acting as reference point and an embodied memory during face-to-face therapy is emphasized. Online psychotherapy remains a useful way to provide mental health services. Due to its challenges and distinct features, it might need to be applied in a more targeted manner, adjusted to the client’s needs, the therapeutic approach, and external circumstances, while carefully weighing the pros and cons. The therapeutic relationship remains the core factor for a subjective feeling of client satisfaction. It remains to be answered whether a therapeutic relationship established online without previous in-person experience differs qualitatively from one already established face-to-face.