Each month, we publish a selection of items that may be of interest to our global readership. Contributions are welcomed; we reserve the right to edit content.
Please also consider promoting your education and training events in the IAHPC Global Directory of Education in Palliative Care. It’s quick and easy – just submit your content online.
The 25th Annual IAPCON Conference, hosted by the Indian Association of Palliative Care and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, takes place 23-25 February 2018 in New Delhi, India. The theme is ‘Create, Collaborate, and Communicate.’
Workshop topics include:
The conference is packed with 11 plenary speakers, including: Eduardo Bruera, speaking on ‘Challenges and Opportunities of Introducing Early Palliative Care in Cancer Care’; Liliana De Lima, ‘Challenges for the Integration of Palliative Care in the Health Care Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries’; Cynthia Goh, ‘Searching for Ideal Palliative Care Model’; and M. R. Raj Gopal, ‘Achieving Professional Goals in Palliative Care’. One lecture is open to the public, Sushma Bhatnagar on ‘Pain is Preventable, No Need to Die in Pain.’
10th World Research Congress of the European Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care will be held 22-24 May 2018 in Bern, Switzerland. The early bird registration deadline is March 15.
Irene Higginson, director of the Cicely Saunders Institute, UK, will deliver the Vittorio Ventafridda lecture. Themed sessions include:
The rest of the programme will be abstract-driven.
Visit the Congress website for more information.
IAHPC members can apply for a Traveling Scholarship; the deadline is 20 January 2018.
The 3rd International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) Conference takes place in Durban, South Africa, from 30 May-2 June 2018. The theme of the conference is ‘Inspiration, Innovation, Integration.’ Early bird registration closes on 28 February 2018.
A full day of pre-conference workshops takes place on 30 May 2018, offering topics such as: perinatal palliative care, difficult conversations in children’s care, care in humanitarian situations, and managing pain from birth to young adulthood.
Plenary speakers include Julia Downing, Chief Executive of the ICPCN; Kelly du Plessis, CEO and founder of Rare Diseases South Africa; pediatric oncologist Ana Lacerda; Satbir Jassal, medical director of Rainbow Children’s Hospice in Leicestershire, UK; and Danai Papadtou, Professor of Clinical Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University in Athens, Greece, among others.
IAHPC members can apply for a Traveling Scholarship; the deadline is 31 January 2018
Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy invites applicants for the position of Editor-in-Chief. The journal, in its 31st volume, publishes original articles on all aspects of advances in acute, chronic, and end-of-life symptom management. Areas covered include efficacy, safety, cost-effectiveness, availability, delivery systems, ethics, policy, philosophy, and other issues relevant to pharmacotherapy in the management of acute, chronic, and end-of-life pain and related symptoms.
Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy is included in Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, and more than 50 other international abstracting & indexing services.
The journal seeks applicants with these skills and attributes:
To apply, forward your CV, a cover letter, and a vision statement to Arianne Groski by 31 January 2018. Your vision statement should be no longer than two pages and should cover:
The EAPC is urging its members to participate in an online survey to identify and evaluate core elements of palliative care.
‘In addition to evaluating the listed competencies, we are very interested in learning about your individual learning and teaching experiences. Can you share your most valuable lesson in palliative care or give good teaching examples? Irrespective of your level of experience or involvement in teaching or practicing palliative care, your expertise will be much appreciated. We hope this survey will enable you to express what, in your opinion, lies at the heart of palliative care – that all health care professionals should be aware of and should form the basis of our teaching and learning strategies.
‘If you don’t have time to complete the survey but would like to share a story about palliative care education experiences, add your topic and email address and we will contact you.’
The EAPC survey is open until 31 January 2018. You can access it here.
The one-month access to access the speakers, lectures, and posters available at the 2017 International Palliative Care Network virtual conference ends on 15 December 2017. Held under the auspices of the European Association for Palliative Care, the theme is ‘Moving Knowledge Across Borders.’ The 24 experts involved in key presentations are from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, , India, Spain, Uganda, the UK, and the USA.
IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Cuidados Paliativos de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos (ALCP) takes place in Santiago, Chile, 11-14 April 2018. IAHPC members can apply for a Traveling Scholarship; the deadline is 15 December 2017.
January 1, 2018 is the deadline to register for the 8th Congress on Pain hosted by the South Asian Regional Pain Society, taking place 24-25 February 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
January 8, 2018 is the deadline for submissions to the World Congress on Pain for Poster Abstracts, Topical Workshops, and Satellite Symposia. The Congress takes place 12-16 September 2018 in Boston, Connecticut, USA.
January 19, 2018 is the deadline for Workshops, Profferred Papers, and Research Forum Papers for the International Congress on Palliative Care (PAL 2018), being held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 2-5 October 2018. The deadline for posters is May 31.
Registration opens mid-May 2018 for the 23rd Hospice New Zealand Palliative Care Conference, being held 18-21 September 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.
The International Federation on Ageing is hosting the 14th Global Conference on Ageing 8-10 August 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The theme of is ‘Towards a Decade of Healthy Ageing – From Evidence to Action.’
The bid for 14th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference being held in 2021 has been awarded to Japan.
Each month, we publish a limited selection of items that may be of interest to our global readership. Contributions are welcomed; we reserve the right to edit content.
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has released a short video that provides a straightforward overview of pediatric palliative care for families, providers and organizations.
This resource is part of NINR’s Palliative Care: Conversations Matter® campaign. The video, which is also available with Spanish subtitles, uses an animated approach to guide viewers through the services that pediatric palliative care encompasses. The video explains in simple terms that palliative care:
The video runs under three minutes. The English-only version is here; English with Spanish subtitles is here.
The French National Authority for Health (HAS) has developed a pathway document ‘to identify adult patients who could benefit from a palliative approach.’ The document, now available in English, is titled ‘Organisation of pathways: Essentials of the palliative approach.’
‘The aim of the pathway is to develop an integrated palliative approach and help health care professionals, in institutions and in the community, provide better care,’ according to the project manager. It is intended for ‘health care professionals and those working in the social and residential care sector, including doctors, pharmacists, nurses, nursing auxiliaries/health care assistants, home helps, social workers, and clinical psychologists.
‘We have heard that several professionals have commented that the document has helped them to understand the palliative approach, to improve the patient’s pathway and to teach palliative care to students or professionals involved in continuing education.’
LivingMyCulture.ca is a video project that gathers conversations about care, culture, traditions, and spirituality at the end of life.
In collaboration with pan-Canadian partners, Canadian Virtual Hospice has produced more than 600 video clips from members of 11 cultures on the topics of serious illness, end of life, and grief, to address a gap in service and support. The goal of the video series is to improve quality of life and support quality end-of-life care that is culturally safe and inclusive.
Cultures involved in the project are: Chinese, Ethiopian, Filipino, Indian, Iranian, Italian, Pakistani, Somali, First Nation, Inuit and Métis. Close to 200 videos are in the following languages: Af Soomaali, Amharic, Cantonese, Farsi, Hindi, Italian, Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog, and Urdu.
The World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance’s primary goal is universal access to palliative care. To help achieve this aim, if offers a curated library of free literature to help develop palliative care, including:
The book Building Integrated Palliative Care Programs and Services, edited by Xavier Gòmez-Batiste and Stephen Connor, is part of the WHPCA’s offerings. [See Roger Woodruff’s review of Stephen R. Connor’s latest book — Hospice and Palliative Care: The Essential Guide. 3rd ed. — in this issue’s Book Reviews section.]
Access the bank of literature here.
Pallium India operates a live information desk to answer questions about palliative care in India, including how and where to access it, staffed six days a week from 9am to 5pm (it is closed on Sunday and national holidays). An experienced person with medical background, trained in palliative care, provides information for:
Phone +91 9746745497 or email [email protected]. General information and materials can always be accessed at www.palliumindia.org.
Each week, the EAPC blog publishes news and personal views on topical issues in palliative care in Europe and beyond. Many posts are available in other languages.
Some EAPC documents are available in Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Find them here.
Integrated Palliative Care is a free book edited by palliative care researchers Jeroen Hasselaar and Sheila Payne. It provides a European context of palliative care development, which includes stories from patients and family caregivers about their own experiences of integrated palliative care within five European Union countries. It also provides highlights of the factors that facilitate and are barriers to integrated palliative care, with recommendations for policy and practice.
This free download is available in the original English as well as the Spanish translation.
The InSup-C project is a research study involving several European countries that is investigating the best way to deliver integrated palliative care to people who have advanced cancer, heart failure, or lung disease as they approach the end of life.
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