Ensure palliative care to cancer patients past treatable stage: experts
The New Indian Express
WHO Emeritus and Chief, Cancer and Palliative Care, Jan Stjernsward has advocated intensification of efforts to integrate palliative care into the healthcare delivery system.
Palliative care nurse hails learning trip to Ethiopia
UK- Nursing Times
A nurse from the UK has spent ten weeks sharing her knowledge and skills with staff caring for palliative patients in Ethiopia.
Be nice project: get your kids to help at a hospice
India- iParenting
This article encourages families to help India’s very first hospice for kids.
Study: Bring home-based hospice techniques to hospital
Nurse.com
Using home-based hospice practices for terminally ill, hospitalised patients could reduce suffering and improve end of life care, according to a study.
Life’s last milestone: Why a ‘good death’ matters
Globe & Mail
If we want to get our last days right we need a radical new approach to how institutions – and patients – plan for the end.
Barriers and facilitators to care for the terminally ill
EAPC blog
Postdoctoral fellow Christopher A Klinger explains the background to his PhD-thesis research on different approaches to care for the terminally ill.
Palliative care: The first conversation
KevinMD
Sonia Fullerton is a palliative care physician in Australia. She writes on talking about dying and palliative care with her patients.
Public preferences and priorities for end of life care in Kenya: a population-based street survey
ehospice Kenya
In a study aimed to explore public preferences and priorities for end of life care in Nairobi, 51.1% of respondents chose home as their most preferred place of death, while 23.1% identified it as their least preferred place of death.
26 graduate with Diploma in Higher Education in Palliative Care
ehospice Kenya
Nairobi Hospice in conjunction with Oxford Brookes University from the UK held a graduation ceremony for Diploma in Higher Education in Palliative care students in Nairobi.
Palliative care advocate Rita makes a name for herself
ehospice Australia
The name Rita Ward may not mean much to most people, but Rita has quietly been making a name for herself in Queensland and across Australia, advocating for the care of palliative care patients for years.
Euthanasia
Last week Belgian lawmakers voted 86 to 44 (with 12 abstentions) to extend the country’s euthanasia laws to children, sparking discussion and debate across the world’s media. The International Children’s Palliative Care Network has issued the Mumbai declaration, saying that euthanasia is not part of palliative care. Here is a sample of articles and opinions from the media:
Belgium surprised at international euthanasia backlash
Reuters
Extend assisted suicide to children? Belgium says yes; so should we
US- LA Times
Belgium’s child euthanasia law – implications for Australia
Australia- The Conversation
Calls for NZ to follow Belgium’s euthanasia lead
New Zealand – 3News
Euthanasia for children is hard to contemplate – but we must talk about it
UK- The Guardian
Euthanasia: the dilemma of choice
Japan Times.
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