“At the pain management and palliative care centre all doctors speak gently to me! They give me the courage and strength not to give up. I trust them.” Photo by Christina Vazou, in Greece, submitted to the IAHPC Photo Contest. Used with permission.
Table of Contents
- Message from the Chair & Executive Director An end-of-year message.
- Policy & Advocacy Wonderful news! Dr. Katherine Pettus reports on the UN’s adoption of a Resolution on Rights of Older Persons that mentions the inclusion of “palliative care” 4 times: a huge payoff after years of advocacy. Also: 2 new WHO guidances on health systems/palliative care; advocacy for access to medicines; and IAHPC at the WHA.
- Guest Advocacy Victoria Diehl of Costa Rica explains why she became an Advocacy Focal Point for IAHPC.
- Grants in Action Reports from IAHPC Scholars (from Bolivia, Brazil, India, Italy, and Malawi) who attended the European Association for Palliative Care’s 17th World Congress in October.
- IAHPC News
- 20% off all IAHPC memberships until Dec. 31st!
- Module 2 of IAHPC Advocacy Course is now available
- Your donation helps ease suffering & changes lives
- Quotable: Professor of theology Charles Camosy
- Reminders: IAHPC seeks helps with social media & book reviewers
- News from our members A free Webinar series on children’s palliative care topics; CanSupport’s 25th anniversary!; Cameroon documentary on pediatric palliative care now on YouTube / Documentaire sur les soins palliatifs pédiatriques au Cameroun sur YouTube
- Pallipedia: New definitions & Top 10
- What’s New in the IAHPC Calendar
- New Listings in the IAHPC Global Directories
- Featured story IAHPC Board Member Dingle Spence on the potential of using psilocybin, a psychedelic, to relieve symptoms at the end of life.
- App review ICOPE (Integrated Care for Older People) is reviewed by Dr. Romayne Gallagher.
- Lessons from the Literature
Under My Microscope IAHPC Research Advisor Dr. Tania Pastrana selects an article on barriers to research trials.
Media Watch: Dementia Barry Ashpole selects articles from his weekly report, Media Watch.
- Meet Some of Our Lifetime Members An interview with Dr. Robert Twycross on his “first 50 years.”
- Membership Matters
- Members’ Impact: Zipporah Ali, Jim Cleary, GVM Chamath Fernando, Marta Ximena Leóna, Luisa Fernanda Rodríguez-Camposa, Liliana De Lima, Patricia Bonilla, Instituto Cultura y Sociedad ATLANTES (Universidad de Navarra), Galilee Palliative Care Unit, Hospice Casa Sperantei, Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, William Rosa, Julia Downing, Betty R. Ferrell, and Living Room International.
- Members in this month’s newsletter
- New & renewing members’ list
- Last Month’s Donors
Alison Ramsey
Senior Editor
Katherine Pettus
PhD, Advisor
Liliana de Lima
MHA, Executive Director
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