Palliative care on neonatal units: first guidance published
UK- Together for Short Lives
Guidance to support staff caring for very young babies with life-limiting conditions who need palliative or end of life care has been published in the UK.
New resource to help bereaved workers
The Irish Hospice Foundation
The Irish Hospice Foundation has launched a resource pack aimed at helping managers and workers to support their colleagues affected by bereavement in the Irish workplace each year.
Global elderly care in crisis
The Lancet
Population ageing has profound implications for the burden of disease and social and healthcare systems. How well prepared are countries to cope with these changing demographics?
Review of home care visits for the elderly finds ‘no proven benefit’
Health Canal
In a new study, researchers have concluded there is ‘no consistent evidence’ to show that home care visits lead to the elderly living longer or having more independent lives than those without any visits.
Rise in palliative care could help boomers living with chronic conditions
Healthline News
Palliative care, one of the fastest growing specialties in medicine, supplements care for patients with both long- and short-term medical needs.
‘Hospice provided immense support’
The Times of Malta
Recovering from breast cancer without a husband, who had passed away, and with three grown children, Frances Scalpello would have faced a very lonely path had it not been for Hospice Malta.
As they lay dying: prison inmates find redemption through a hospice program
US- New Times
Supportive Care Services is a program that teaches inmates to provide hospice care to dying inmates in the hospital of California Men’s Colony.
Dance performance focuses on end of life issues
US- VPR
‘To you, around you, about you’ explores the themes of ageing, memory, loss and the transition to death.
When patients ignore the evidence: try to understand their values
KevinMD
“Only by understanding the ground on which our patients stand can we begin to walk that path with them, and perhaps, point them towards the road perhaps best traveled,” writes oncologist Don S. Dizon.
Person-centered care differs from patient-centered care
ONS Connect
“Referring to someone as a person reminds us that we are caring for much more than the clinical aspects of a patient,” writes oncology nurse Deborah Christensen.
A career in review: Professor Ian Maddocks
ehospice Australia
2013 Senior Australian of the Year, Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks spoke with ABC Radio National’s Richard Fidler on its ‘Conversations’ program about everything from his childhood, his work during the anti-nuclear movement, through to becoming the first University Chair of Palliative Care in the country.
Start2talk encourages us all to have the conversation
ehospice Australia
Start2Talk has released two promotional videos to encourage Australians to engage with one another in conversations about future healthcare, lifestyle and financial decisions, should they become incapacitated.
Kolkata doctor tells the story of yet another helpless caregiver
ehospice India
Dr Sanghamitra Bora writes about the challenges faced by caregivers of palliative care patients.
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