The added value of allied healthcare professionals in integrated respiratory care

Symposium
Chairs: M. Spruit (Horn, Netherlands), A. Pires De Dias Marques (Aveiro, Portugal)
Aims: to enhance understanding of the diagnostic and therapeutic options available to psychologists, occupational therapists, dieticians and nurses for adult patients with chronic lung diseases and to highlight the added value of allied healthcare professionals in integrated respiratory care in 2019.

Patient perspective B. Mansell (Surrey, United Kingdom)
Occupational therapy: making daily life easier L. Sewell (Leicestershire, United Kingdom)
Psychological counselling: train the brain! A. Von Leupoldt (Leuven, Belgium)
Dietary counselling: the fatter the better? C. Hanson (Omaha, United States of America)
Nurses: the spider in the web of integrated respiratory care? E. Collins (Chicago, United States of America)