The DALLI research project has been awarded the Marie Curie Clair Fisher Research Impact Award.
The DALLI study created a toolkit to help carers and care professionals spot the signs of domestic abuse in people with a life limiting illness.
Marie Curie praised :
The innovative approaches of your project, and how important and wide ranging its impact has been and will be in the future for people at the end of life and their families.
Dr Michelle Myall, Principal Research Fellow with NIHR ARC Wessex, spent several years working with those involved in the care of people with a life limiting illness to find a way to help support those people that are experiencing domestic abuse.
Michelle said:
It’s often difficult for people to believe that domestic abuse for people living with a terminal illness happens. It is our hope that the toolkit can support health and social care professionals and give them to the confidence to ask questions or know the signs to look out for.
The Marie Curie Research Impact Award has been named after Clair Fisher who sadly died in January 2022 having lived with a terminal illness since 2018. Clair was a passionate and influential advocate for improving wellbeing in palliative care.
Michelle and the research team have won £1000 to help develop DALLI and share it more widely.
The DALLI toolkit was officially launched in October 2024, and abuse victim Nicola spoke to the conference, she said:
I think abuse like this is rife. It’s like this taboo – it’s whispered about but never spoken out loud, There’s the two things, cancer and domestic abuse. That’s why I talk about it, and I want nurses and people like that to not be afraid to ask if they think someone’s being abused.
Domestic abuse (DA) affects more than 2 million adults in England and Wales. It does not discriminate - costing the healthcare system £2.3 billion a year.
People living with a life-limiting illness are at higher risk because they are vulnerable and can struggle to get help. Abusers can deny them medical treatment and care making their illness and quality of life worse.
Care professionals are ideally placed to spot the early signs of abuse and help.
You can download the toolkit below
There's also a quick guide the download below
Marie Curie helped to fund a DALLI video below
If you would like to know more about DALLI email dalli@soton.ac.uk
Read more about the study here
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