About Conference Calling all changemakers in palliative care! The11th World Congress on Hospice and Palliative Care(HOSPICE 2024), taking place in London, UK on October 23-24, 2024, invites you to join a groundbreaking exploration of innovation in the field. The theme, "Innovation in Palliative...
Palliativecare Conferencesis a multidisciplinary approach to specializedmedical carefor people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms,pain, physical stress, and mental stress of a serious illness—whatever the diagnosis. The goal of such therapy is to imp...
Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts Education ConferenceHoward J. Young
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This article describes the Colorado planning initiative directed at needed planning for contingency and crisis standards to assure appropriate palliative care and hospice services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduction During a disaster or pandemic, as in usual times, every attempt shoul...
Sponsor of Hospice & Palliative Care Today Aging and unhoused: What end-of-life care looks like Next Avenue; by Terry Ann Donner; 12/2/24 Karen Robyn is a 62-year-old homeless woman on disability; ... she fears dying alone on the streets or in a hospital hooked up to machines she...
1. Was there a particular event (or person) that drew you to palliative care?“I began my career by working at St. Dominic’s Hospital, a very busy Catholic Mission hospital in rural Ghana with a wide variety of medical and surgical patients at various stages of presentation, some quite ...
SummaryBackground The present study aimed to explore the attitude and knowledge toward hospice palliative care among medical caregivers in Taiwan. Methods A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among medical staff attending a hospice palliative care conference. Results Overall, 163 of 232 qu...
Patricia Berry, “Hospice and Palliative Care: Differences Matter,” International Journal of Palliative Nursing 21, no. 3 (2015): 107. ↩ This fact should not obfuscate the problems and inequities that were and are present in hospice as conceived by mission-driven nonprofits. These organizatio...
A Hospice and Palliative Rotation for Military Medical Residents: A Mixed Methods, Multistakeholder Perspective Program Evaluation (S711) Objectives 1. Describe a mixed-methods, multistakeholder approach to evaluating a community hospice and palliative medicine rotation for military medical residents. 2. ...