Nicole van Uden is a Marie Curie PhD Training Fellow in EUROIMPACT. Provision of high quality palliative care for patients with dementia is a major challenge for future health care. Aim of this project is to describe and compare quality of palliative care for patients with dementia in different European countries. Different aspects of quality of care will be studied ie communication, end-of-life decision-making, advance care planning, use and accessibility of palliative care, aggressiveness of care and treatments received at the end of life, and quality of dying etc, using a number of retrospective and prospective data that have been gathered or are being across Europe e.g. data from GPs, data from long-term care settings, death certificate studies, and data from the interrRAI Long Term Care Facility. Nicole works at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Brussels, Belgium and will travel to the VU University Medical Center and EMGO Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for 6 months.