2019; Volume 20, No 1, January
Table of Contents
- Message from the Chair and Executive Director An introduction to IAHPC’s consensus-based definition of palliative care.
- Editor’s Corner On recent changes to the look of the email version, and an open door for feedback.
- Policy and Advocacy Dr. Katherine Pettus’s roundup of highlights for the advancement of palliative care advocacy in 2018, and some goals for 2019.
- Featured Article IAHPC Board Member Dr. Julia Downing discusses current questions and concerns surrounding children’s palliative care.
- IAHPC News Comments about the IAHPC Palliative Care Definition, an invitation to endorse it, a call for volunteer translators, and links to the full text and endorsements.
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IAHPC Grants in Action Reports from Traveling Scholarship grantees attending 2 different events.
- IAHPC Book Reviews A year-end list of Dr. Roger Woodruff’s 2018 Books of the Month, with links to each review.
- Media Watch
Thematic Issue A special issue of Illness, Crisis & Loss comprises applied explorations of disenfranchised grief.
Surveys & Solutions The first published exploration of palliative care in the Solomon Islands, and researchers identify 7 areas that need to be addressed to improve end-of-life care for those with dementia.
Article Abstracts
- Moving from heart failure guidelines to clinical practice: Gaps contributing to readmissions in patients with multiple comorbidities and older age. An outline of important gaps in guidelines for patients with comorbidities and the elderly.
- How do palliative care doctors recognise imminently dying patients? A judgement analysis. Insight into doctors’ decision-making for hospice patients with end-stage malignancy, and the weight to give contributing factors.
- Palliative care in universal health coverage: What about humanitarian emergency assistance? New guidelines to an emerging consideration of palliative care among humanitarian organisations.
- Announcements
- Distance Ed: Advanced Palliative Care Course
- Applications Open for Leadership Course in Europe
- Registration Open for Asia-Pacific Conference
- Pain Management: AJPH Publishes Special Section
- Reader Recommended: An advanced practice nurse, consultant, and educator relies upon www.mypcnow.org/fast-facts
- CaringBridge: An online way to coordinate care of a loved one
- See our 4 new Calendar listings. Or go directly to the full Calendar to find a workshop, seminar, congress, or conference that speaks to you. Anyone can submit an event for consideration; it’s free!
- Introducing... ATLANTES, a team in Spain that pursues research from the perspective of human dignity and professional care.
- IAHPC Membership Matters 2018’s Lifetime Membership Award winner reports on the Congress on Nursing Care and Education that she attended.
- Donors
Regards,
Alison Ramsey, Senior Editor
Katherine Pettus, PhD, Advisor
Liliana de Lima, MHA, Executive Director
Danilo Fritzler, Webmaster
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