Following their successful digital exchange in 2021, the Advance Care Planning International (ACPi) Committee announced a series of webinars in 2022 focusing on how different healthcare systems are implementing advance care planning. They are asking the speakers to tell us “what is in their system’s ACP pill?” They will cover how they define advance care planning, what they are trying to achieve with advance care planning, what is happening before, during and after advance care planning conversations and why? This will be followed by a live Q&A that all attendees can participate in. On 27 April 2022 (2-3 pm GMT+8), we
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Life review is one of the many methods of spiritual care. Through reviewing the experience of past achievements in life and discovering the meaning of life, the clients are helped to move towards the future with peace of mind in appreciation, praise, gratitude and letting go. In addition to physical pain control and psychological grief soothing, what else can hospice and palliative care do? Domestic front-line staff who devote themselves to hospice care understand in their hearts that spiritual care is also an indispensable and important piece of the puzzle. What exactly is spiritual care? How should we carried it
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Dr Andy Hau Yan HO President, Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), USA. Head & Associate Professor, Psychology, School of Social Sciences; Joint Honorary Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine; Deputy Director of Research, Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education; Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Introduction Caring for the dying and the bereaved pose complex and multifaceted demands on professional end-of-life (EoL) caregivers such as physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors and allied health workers. These include the necessity for excellent responsiveness, efficiency, clinical capability as well as emotional competence. In addition to these daily demands,
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APHN will be hosting a FREE webinar on ‘Paediatric Palliative Care in the Medical Neighbourhood for Children with Medical Complexity’ on 29 Mar 2022 (Tues), 1-2 pm GMT+8. To check your local time for the webinar, click here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ Synopsis Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a medically fragile population that are defined as individuals with high family identified needs, complex chronic disease, functional disability and high health care utilization. Medical advancements have led to a growing cohort of CMC and the medical home has emerged as a healthcare model to serve the unique needs of CMC and their families. Concurrent
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Our colleagues Amanda Landers and Tim Wilkinson from the University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine have recently written about the benefits of a coordinated palliative and end of life care education programme. Writing in Advances in Medical Education and Practice 2021:12 1531–1538 they say: Palliative care is an essential part of the medical undergraduate programme; however, it is taught in an ad-hoc and variable way throughout the world. This study found a co-ordinated palliative and end-of-life care programme increases knowledge and skills but may not improve attitudes. The University of Otago undergraduates reported high confidence in patient management, symptom management and team attributes
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About the Episode In this two-part episode, we commemorate the life of Prof. Cynthia Goh who passed away due to pancreatic cancer on Feb 13th 2022. Prof. Cynthia was an emeritus consultant in the Division of Supportive & Palliative Care in NCCS. She was one of the pioneers of hospice care in Singapore and was the founding president of HCA Hospice Care. She also chaired the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network. In the first part of the episode, Prof. Cynthia talks about what palliative care entails, and shares about her journey of establishing hospice care in Singapore. In the
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My name is Dr Masanori Mori and I am currently working as a palliative care physician in a palliative care team at a tertiary regional hospital and serving as a Director of the Division of Palliative and Supportive Care at Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Japan. Usually, I work with the inpatient and outpatient palliative care teams.
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Following on from our successful digital exchange in 2021, the Advance Care Planning International (ACPi) Committee is excited to announce a series of webinars in 2022 focusing on how different healthcare systems are implementing advance care planning. We are lining up some great speakers from around the world for these webinars. They will share their unique advance care planning implementation experiences, including the successes and challenges, to help you think about your own implementation approach. We are asking the speakers to tell us “what is in their system’s ACP pill?” They will cover how they define advance care planning, what
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