World Media Roundup – 28 January 2015

Categories: In The Media.

ANZ position statement on paediatric palliative care and paediatric palliative care briefing

Australia & New Zealand – APHN

Palliative Care Australia and The Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Palliative Care Reference Group have released a position statement on paediatric palliative care.

Elderly care in UAE needs attention, expert says

UAE – The National

Care for the elderly needs to be improved and unified across the UAE, a leading expert in geriatric care says.

Australian aged care exports to India ‘almost impossible’

Australian Ageing Agenda

Notwithstanding an Australian-Indian free trade agreement on the horizon, the outlook for Australian aged care providers considering setting up in India have been described as ‘high volume, low margin’.

VA steps up programs as more veterans enter hospice care

US – NPR

Starting last year, more military veterans are passing away in hospice care than in all of VA trauma and ICU wards combined.

Leave assisted suicide to courts, peer tells MSPs

UK – The Scotsman

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, a professor of palliative medicine, said courts rather than doctors should adjudicate on eligibility as she highlighted a number of problems with the Assisted Suicide Bill.

Doctors share on pain management in palliative care

ehospice Kenya

In January KEHPCA organized a Continuous Medical Education session for the Kenya Medical Association (KMA), Nanyuki division.

Young adults’ group launched at St Christopher’s Hospice

ehospice UK

New informal drop-in sessions at St Christopher’s Hospice aim to provide a lifeline for young adults with a life-limiting illness and allow them to socialise away from parents and carers.

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