Have you ever heard the phrase: “The fish rots from the head?“
AV Management Consulting
If your director and/or senior management team is not practising good governance, the success of the entire organisation could be at stake.
Sri Lanka- The Island
Article about Shantha Sevena in Maharagama, a free home for those terminally ill with cancer.
TN not high on morphine for pain
India- The Hindu
There is a lack of awareness on the benefits of oral morphine, say palliative care experts.
What an old doctor taught me about palliative care
US- Kevin MD
Blog by Monica Williams-Murphy, an emergency physician and author of It’s OK to Die.
Home funeral movement: A natural extension of the home hospice movement?
It’s OK to die
“We are entering an era where a shift is occurring in how we care for those who are dying…we are bringing them back home. This is one of the core principles of the hospice movement. In a continuation of this line of thought, the home funeral movement asks: ‘Why not keep our loved ones home for after-death care?’
Where’s that advance care directive?
US- New York Times – New Old Age Blog
As a hospital social worker, Ms Wagner wishes people with advance directives would, at minimum, supply copies to their primary care physicians and to the individuals named as their health care decision-makers, as well as keep copies close at hand themselves.
Supreme Court rules consent required before ending care
ehospice Canada
A Toronto doctor’s appeal to remove life support was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada, believing that removing life support is a medical treatment and therefore requires consent under Ontario law.
22nd International Conference of IAPC
ehospice India
The organising committee of the IAPCON 2015 has announced the schedule of the 22nd International conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care, to be held in Hyderabad from 13 to 15 February 2015.
ehospice South Africa
In August 2012, a Cotlands community caregiver came across Mnqobi while conducting regular home-care visits in Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal.
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