A new haircut can change your life
EAPC Blog
Michaela Hesse and Lukas Radbruch, Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany, talk about a recent study week they delivered on volunteering in hospice and palliative care, and the key issues it raised.
Does ethnicity affect where people with cancer die? A population-based 10 year study
PLOS ONE
This UK study highlights how location of death varies by country of birth and calls for further investigation to determine whether these differences result from patient-centred preferences, or other environmental or service-related factors.
How the Oculus Rift helped Roberta Firstenberg battle cancer
The Rift Arcade
Game artist Priscilla Firstenberg used an Oculus Rift dev kit to help her grandmother experience the outside world before passing away.
Palliative care: care that comforts
Malaysia- The Star
Palliative care is relatively young in Malaysia – there are less than ten palliative care physicians in the country and specialised palliative care offered by hospice organisations is available mostly in major cities.
Can you really die of a broken heart? And four other questions about love, life and death
Globe and Mail
Interview with professor of psychiatry and palliative care expert, Dr Gary Rodin, on myths around dying.
Kate delights kids during hospice visit
Australia- News
There were no airs and graces, just a young mother bringing smiles to sick young children being cared for at Bear Cottage in Manly, one of only two children’s hospices in Australia.
Dying is a 12-step program
A Commonplace Blog
In this blog post, the author compares dying to the well-known ’12-step programme’ for recovery from addiction, writing: “To die without accepting responsibility for the damage I have done to relationships that were once meaningful to me would be shameful and undeniably self-important.”
New children’s book offers gentle way to start conversations about death and dying
PR Newswire
Blogging grandma Belinda Brock has written her first children’s book with the aim of helping children deal with the death of a loved one.
7 ways chronic illness imposes an extra burden on the young
Kevin MD
Blog post about chronic illness and the particular challenges these conditions cause for young people living with them.
Childhood TB cases spark calls for wider screening
ehospice South Africa
One new mother’s good deed may have exposed her seven-month-old baby to tuberculosis (TB).
Hospice’s holistic care approach in a biomedical culture
ehospice USA
Review of a study which focuses on gathering data to analyse and provide qualitative and quantitative answers to a central research questions which asks how patients understand the hospice mission and holistic approach?
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