Algarve association highlights need for palliative care in region
Portugal News
A regional association set up to provide support to cancer and palliative care patients in the Algarve has highlighted the need for such a service in the region, and spoke about the struggles that patients and the association face, ahead of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day.
Spanish organisations unite to improve patients’ access to palliative care
Spain – Global Cancer Control
The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and the Spanish Palliative Care Society (SECPAL) are marking World Hospice and Palliative Care Day by inviting nearly eighty organisations to commit to improve patient’s care at the end of life.
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2015 – a campaign for life
EAPC blog
Santiago Corrêa is the founder of ‘Estar ao Seu Lado,’ a project to promote palliative care in primary care. Here, he explains how they helped to mount a public awareness campaign in Brazil.
Write about it, talk about it: students bring “Before I Die” project to Singapore
APHPCN
Death is a taboo topic in Singapore. Changing the way our society views death and dying will play a part in advancing understanding and acceptance of palliative care as a way to “add life to days, whether or not days can be added to life.”
Citizens pick 50 spots to be made disabled-friendly after the PM’s Mann Ki Baat
India Today
The government has now asked each state to identity 50-100 public buildings in big cities to be made easily accessible for the differently-abled persons under the ‘Accessible India Campaign’.
US – New York Times
Before I was an intern standing in the middle of the night over a pale, motionless woman about to certify her death, I had a very different vision of what a person’s final moment would be like, writes Haider Javed Warraich.
UK – Daily Mail
Doctors and nurses are ‘walking past’ dying patients because they don’t know how to ease their suffering, experts admitted yesterday.
Palliative care awareness hits the hidden patients in prisons
ehospice Kenya
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA), the umbrella body of palliative care services in Kenya, supported Nairobi Hospice to visit prisoners at Kamiti Maximum Prisons.
Collaboration announced between NHPCO and Morgan State University
ehospice USA
Organizations will work together to provide enhanced education about end of life care among HBCU academic communities.
ehospice UK
People do odd things for hospices. They throw themselves joyfully out of planes, abseil down towers, wheeze unappealingly around half-marathon courses, hacking and spitting their way, red-faced over the finish line.
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