Seasons Greetings from ehospice South Africa

Highlights of some of the articles published on ehospice South Africa for the year 2014:

January 2014

* Life, Lemons and Lemonade

* Global Atlas of Palliative Care at the End of Life to launch soon

* Reflections on Hospice

* Iron Man for Hospice Campaign

February 2014

* A family’s love in the final days

*Euthanasia is not part of palliative care – the ICPCN Declaration of Mumbai 2014

*Don’t fear death, rather plan for it

*Keeping the sunshine on terminally ill

* Dr Anne Merriman nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

 

March 2014

* Tribute to Professor Leana Uys

* CaSIPO Launch: Ensuring Quality of Life and Dignity When Battling Illness

* 1 Woman, 650 Kilometres, 15 Days… For 1 Great Cause.

 

April 2014

*HPCA supports “games for older persons”

*HPCA empowers hospices through MMM workhops

*Traditional healers to partner with hospice

 

May 2014

*Breaking News: palliative care resolution adopted at WHA

*Embracing the Quality of Life

*Palliative care at the 67th World Health Assembly

 

June 2014

* Dr Sarah Fakroodeen wins BWA Professional Category Woman of the Year Award*
*Access to opioid medication – discussion with Dr Lochan Naidoo, President of INCB

July 2014
* Paediatric postgraduate curriculum in India to include palliative care

*Desmond Tutu: a dignified death is our right – I am in favour of assisted dying

*Graça Machel speaks of her loss for the first time

August 2014

*Social Butterfly – Social Conscience? : HPCA Launches Social Butterfly Tattoo

 

September 2014

*HPCA : Social Butterfly TV Ad

*South African palliative care documentary: From the Brink of Death

 

October 2014

*Legal services for hospice patients in South Africa

*Social Butterfly Campaign Sees Global Response

*CaSIPO News: Free – State Health Indaba a Huge Success!

 

November 2014
*Reflections of Hospice through the eyes of Shaun Thomas

*Cyclists raise R380 000 for hospice

*South Africa: Champion of the terminally ill succumbs to cancer

*CaSIPO News: Free – State Health Indaba a Huge Success!

 

December 2014

*Fifty years of a mutual love for helping

*A matric holiday that will truly make a difference

We wish you all the very best for this festive season and wish to inspire you even more in the new year to come…