International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care

01/11/2022

Just published! January IAHPC Newsletter
#Malawi #Philippines #India & global
Issues: Advocacy achievements including for #morphine access, reflecting on resilience in #COVID19, #PalliativeCare in Lung Disease (book review), #psychedelics as medicine, social work in health care https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2022/01/

Just published! January IAHPC Newsletter
#Malawi #Philippines #India & global
Issues: Advocacy achievements including for #morphine access, reflecting on resilience in #COVID19, #PalliativeCare in Lung Disease (book review), #psychedelics as medicine, social work in health care https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2022/01/

12/30/2021

What is palliative care and how can it be assessed?

Wonderful new short video from World Health Organization (WHO) explaining #palliativecare! You can feel at home here! https://youtu.be/siXLjg0eiVs

Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing life-threatening illness. It provides holistic care (medical, psychologica...

12/29/2021

2 days left to take advantage of reduced IAHPC membership fees and nominate colleagues or institutions for Member Recognition Awards

https://bit.ly/3JuugOk

2 days left to take advantage of reduced IAHPC membership fees and nominate colleagues or institutions for Member Recognition Awards

https://bit.ly/3JuugOk

12/27/2021

Dr. Romayne Gallagher reviews ICOPE, an app made by the WHO to assess aspects of a patient’s function is a useful tool, but requires 32MB (Google Play) or up to 55MB (Apple). In the December IAHPC Newsletter.
https://bit.ly/3IS94Bz

Dr. Romayne Gallagher reviews ICOPE, an app made by the WHO to assess aspects of a patient’s function is a useful tool, but requires 32MB (Google Play) or up to 55MB (Apple). In the December IAHPC Newsletter.
https://bit.ly/3IS94Bz

12/24/2021

As we enter the festive season, IAHPC greets Christian friends around the world who celebrate the birth of Jesus and wishes everyone, including those of other faiths, a peaceful holiday and fulfilling new year.

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As we enter the festive season, IAHPC greets Christian friends around the world who celebrate the birth of Jesus and wishes everyone, including those of other faiths, a peaceful holiday and fulfilling new year.

https://bit.ly/3eoasy4

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12/23/2021

Only eight days left to take advantage of reduced IAHPC membership fees and nominate colleagues or institutions for Member Recognition Awards!

https://bit.ly/33J4XHY

Only eight days left to take advantage of reduced IAHPC membership fees and nominate colleagues or institutions for Member Recognition Awards!

https://bit.ly/33J4XHY

12/22/2021

Homelessness and palliative care: how can we improve equity of care? - Niamh Brophy, St Ann’s Hospice - ehospice

Terrific work!

Homelessness and palliative care: how can we improve equity of care? – Niamh Brophy, St Ann’s Hospice December 20, 2021 | No CommentsCategories: Care, Community Engagement, Featured, and Opinion. For most people, when asked where they would like to be cared for and to spend their last days, thei...

12/18/2021

The potential of psilocybin to improve spiritual well-being is December’s IAHPC Newsletter featured story.
https://bit.ly/3m8rnZx

The potential of psilocybin to improve spiritual well-being is December’s IAHPC Newsletter featured story.
https://bit.ly/3m8rnZx

12/15/2021

“Listen, listen, listen! Let the patient tell their story.” A Q&A with Dr. Robert Twycross, a leading and early researcher on pain relief at the end of life, hired by Cicely Saunders, in the December IAHPC Newsletter.
https://bit.ly/3F0FsQa

“Listen, listen, listen! Let the patient tell their story.” A Q&A with Dr. Robert Twycross, a leading and early researcher on pain relief at the end of life, hired by Cicely Saunders, in the December IAHPC Newsletter.
https://bit.ly/3F0FsQa

12/15/2021

A last-minute gift for yourself: 20% off membership in IAHPC, available until Dec. 31! More details, and an update on a members-only Advocacy Course, lead the News section of the December Newsletter. https://bit.ly/3ysvMvr

A last-minute gift for yourself: 20% off membership in IAHPC, available until Dec. 31! More details, and an update on a members-only Advocacy Course, lead the News section of the December Newsletter. https://bit.ly/3ysvMvr

12/13/2021

In December’s IAHPC Newsletter just released:

ISSUES: UN Resolution on Rights of Older Persons, new WHO guidances, a psychedelic to relieve EOL symptoms, research on dementia.

COUNTRIES: Costa Rica, India, Cameroon, IAHPC Scholars in Bolivia, Brazil, India, Italy, and Malawi

In December’s IAHPC Newsletter just released:

ISSUES: UN Resolution on Rights of Older Persons, new WHO guidances, a psychedelic to relieve EOL symptoms, research on dementia.

COUNTRIES: Costa Rica, India, Cameroon, IAHPC Scholars in Bolivia, Brazil, India, Italy, and Malawi

12/08/2021

How can palliative care engage policymakers? By offering a route to health and social care integration

Palliative care offers an evidence-based route for policymakers to achieve their stated priorities around integrated care, personalised care and support for unpaid carers.

For decades there have been calls for palliative and end-of-life care to be prioritised in health policies, with limited success. This study highlights the reciprocal relationship between palliative care and policy priorities and offers a fresh perspective on engaging policymakers.

While taking part in a King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, UK, Josephine Jewiss and Natasha Joseph were involv…

12/02/2021

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IAHPC Advocacy works!! UN General Assembly Third Committee Drug Control resolution "invites Member States to …. identify, analyse & remove impediments to availability&accessibility of controlled substances for medical&scientific purposes, within appropriate control mechanisms" Your government approved. Remind them when you are advocating for your patients and improved access to medicines! #palliativecare https://bit.ly/3lrFLf6

11/30/2021

hospicecare.com

The IAHPC is an accredited delegate to the Special Session of the World Health Assembly going on now in Geneva to discuss a framework Pandemic Treaty. IAHPC's statement, endorsed by WHPCA, requested that WHO member states ensure "equitable delivery of palliative care at all levels of the healthcare system alongside diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics to increase the potential benefits of a new instrument for strengthening pandemic preparedness and response."https://hospicecare.com/uploads/2021/11/One%20minute%20WHASS2%20statement%20IAHPC%20WHPCA.pdf

11/30/2021

Narcotics law, and the medical use of opioids

"People who have not experienced or borne witness to excruciating pain from diseases like cancer cannot understand the enormity of the suffering " The challenge of adequate access to opioids. Thanks Dr. Raja Gopal IAHPC Lifetime member and palliative care leader. –

The repeal of the three farm bills is in the headlines. A little beneath the surface and reportedly all set for the winter session of Parliament are amendments to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. These are causing some worry among medical professionals and palliative care s...

11/24/2021

Gulnara Kunirova on what advocacy has accomplished in Kazahkstan: palliative care is now among government’s guaranteed services, multidisciplinary teams enacted, PC home care now given by primary care MDs and RNs, at-home services expanded. Read more in the IAHPC November Newsletter: https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

Gulnara Kunirova on what advocacy has accomplished in Kazahkstan: palliative care is now among government’s guaranteed services, multidisciplinary teams enacted, PC home care now given by primary care MDs and RNs, at-home services expanded. Read more in the IAHPC November Newsletter: https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

11/23/2021

Newsflash! Expand your advocacy horizons with IAHPC Introductory and Basic Advocacy Courses free to view on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNKBirZYaxdZtBi0IDE5Mqc0hROF4JZ8N

Newsflash! Expand your advocacy horizons with IAHPC Introductory and Basic Advocacy Courses free to view on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNKBirZYaxdZtBi0IDE5Mqc0hROF4JZ8N

11/16/2021

Ep. 325 Palliative Care: What’s Needed Now and in the Future with John Mulder MD

Excellent conversation by an experienced pioneer and mentor. On point arguments for PC education, prevention of burnout, difference between hospice and palliative care, and benefits of PC for quality of life of patients and families.

Learn how palliative care can meet the healthcare needs of the future. My guest Dr. John Mulder is a pioneering member of the palliative care specialty. He currently serves as chief medical consult…

11/15/2021

Catch up on IAHPC’s recent global advocacy in the November Newsletter.
And—WOW!—read how this affordable, award-winning Fellowship in Palliative Care can put gas in your palliative care engine.
Plus: A photo flashback to Dr. and Professor Derek Doyle and 1982.
https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

Catch up on IAHPC’s recent global advocacy in the November Newsletter.
And—WOW!—read how this affordable, award-winning Fellowship in Palliative Care can put gas in your palliative care engine.
Plus: A photo flashback to Dr. and Professor Derek Doyle and 1982.
https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

11/15/2021

Catch up on IAHPC’s recent global advocacy in the November Newsletter.
And—WOW!—read how this affordable, award-winning Fellowship in Palliative Care can put gas in your palliative care engine.
Plus: A photo flashback to Dr. and Professor Derek Doyle and 1982.
https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

Catch up on IAHPC’s recent global advocacy in the November Newsletter.
And—WOW!—read how this affordable, award-winning Fellowship in Palliative Care can put gas in your palliative care engine.
Plus: A photo flashback to Dr. and Professor Derek Doyle and 1982.
https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

11/15/2021

Catch up on IAHPC’s recent global advocacy in the November Newsletter.
And—WOW!—read how this affordable, award-winning Fellowship in Palliative Care can put gas in your palliative care engine.
Plus: A photo flashback to Dr. and Professor Derek Doyle and 1982.

Catch up on IAHPC’s recent global advocacy in the November Newsletter.
And—WOW!—read how this affordable, award-winning Fellowship in Palliative Care can put gas in your palliative care engine.
Plus: A photo flashback to Dr. and Professor Derek Doyle and 1982.

11/08/2021

In November’s IAHPC Newsletter just released:
ISSUES / EVENTS: Monthly global advocacy roundup, a PC learning opportunity for those in low- and middle-income countries, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, how advocacy got results in Kazahkstan, death rattle and other useful PC research.
COUNTRIES / REGIONS: Zambia, India, Kazahkstan and IAHPC Scholars from Buenos Aires, Burkina Faso, Kuala Lumpur, Lebanon.

https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

In November’s IAHPC Newsletter just released:
ISSUES / EVENTS: Monthly global advocacy roundup, a PC learning opportunity for those in low- and middle-income countries, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, how advocacy got results in Kazahkstan, death rattle and other useful PC research.
COUNTRIES / REGIONS: Zambia, India, Kazahkstan and IAHPC Scholars from Buenos Aires, Burkina Faso, Kuala Lumpur, Lebanon.

https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/

11/08/2021

You Can Move Mountains: Your dollars transform into actions that help to alleviate end-of-life physical and spiritual pain all over the world. Actions taken are both international and specific: IAHPC maintains day-to-day supports for institutions, individual providers, and patient care.
We punch far above our weight, but we can't do it without you! Please join IAHPC [https://hospicecare.com/join-iahpc/] or donate [https://hospicecare.com/donate/] today.

https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/message-from-the-chair-and-executive-director/

You Can Move Mountains: Your dollars transform into actions that help to alleviate end-of-life physical and spiritual pain all over the world. Actions taken are both international and specific: IAHPC maintains day-to-day supports for institutions, individual providers, and patient care.
We punch far above our weight, but we can't do it without you! Please join IAHPC [https://hospicecare.com/join-iahpc/] or donate [https://hospicecare.com/donate/] today.

https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/11/message-from-the-chair-and-executive-director/

11/06/2021

Hospices “overlooked” during key moments of pandemic

Useful research model to provide evidence for improving services.

Researchers are investigating the impact of the pandemic on hospices, in a bid to use the findings to improve clinical practice Staff in palliative

10/27/2021

Lack of palliative care is a failure in too many MAiD requests

"The error is not in receiving MAiD, as the person may meet all the requirements: unbearable suffering, a grievous and permanent condition, an advanced state of decline, ability to give informed and voluntary consent. The error occurred in the months before, when the pain, shortness of breath, anxiety, feeling a burden to others began, but was not recognized and treated. Because there is no single event or “fail,” the slide into despair is gradual." Dr Romayne Gallager, who writes a column for the IAHPC newsletter. Thank you!

An unacceptable number of people who requested medical assistance in dying received little or no quality palliative care in the months before death.

10/25/2021

App Review - International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care

Are on-the-spot interpretation apps good enough for palliative care providers and patients? IAHPC app reviewer, Dr. Romayne Gallagher, answers the question.
https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/10/app-review/

While the funny side of communication between those who don’t speak the same language is a source for stand-up comedy routines, in health care faulty communication can lead to bad outcomes. I’m sure that most of us recall care episodes where we feel we are “just getting by” and may miss sign...

10/19/2021

Palliative Care in Latin America: Are We Making Any Progress? Assessing Development Over Time Using Macro Indicators. Free access until December 8.

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1dxGr39K9ylQNB

Palliative Care in Latin America: Are We Making Any Progress? Assessing Development Over Time Using Macro Indicators. Free access until December 8.

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1dxGr39K9ylQNB

10/18/2021

Is there equitable access to palliative care for people in prison?

"Is there equitable access to palliative care for people in prison?" IAHPC honored to work with this Task Force of the European Association for Palliative Care. We also bring in the US perspective, where many "lifers" die in prison, alone and without appropriate care or medication.

CELEBRATING WORLD HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE DAY 2021. THIS YEAR’S THEME IS LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND – EQUITY IN ACCESS TO PALLIATIVE CARE In a special series, EAPC task forces and reference groups tha…

10/16/2021

Policy and Advocacy - International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care

Oct 11 “Palliative care is my religion, my politics, and my love!” says Silvia Labrada, director of Todos Contigo, Spain. Read about her and the New Health Foundation in the Advocacy section of the October IAHPC Newsletter.
https://hospicecare.com/what-we-do/publications/newsletter/2021/10/policy-and-advocacy/

“Palliative care is my religion, my politics, and my love!” So declared Silvia Labrada, Director of Todos Contigo [translation: All With You, or We’ve Got Your Back!], when I had the great privilege of visiting with her and the colleagues at the New Health Foundation (NHF) in Seville, Spain. I...