What does palliative care look like where you live? Show us for a chance to win IAHPC's 2023 Photo Contest: see details in the News section. This composite is slices of winning photos from the last contest, showing palliative care in Burkina Faso, Lesotho, and Pakistan.
A Few of IAHPC's Many Resources
Up-to-date, expert info: IAHPC's pain course & symptoms course, free for members.
Stay on track with terminology with the help of our IAHPC's free online palliative care dictionary, Pallipedia, & Language Matters.
Browse or search IAHPC's book reviews.
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Table of Contents
- Dear Readers A mix from Lukas and Liliana: IAHPC's special issue, a tribute to Lucy Watts, EAPC Scholars, and books for members.
- Policy & Advocacy Katherine Pettus reports on high-level meetings (World Health Assembly, UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing), an IAHPC webinar and plans for more, opposition to physician-assisted dying via telehealth, update on the WHO pandemic preparedness treaty, and a terrific EOL University podcast.
- Special Advocacy Report Easy to do, yet so inspiring: Kristin Forner's experience advocating for palliative care at the United Nations.
- IAHPC News
- IAHPC launches its 2023 Photo Contest. Win a cash prize & membership extension!
- New & upcoming member benefits: it's a great time to join the IAHPC.
- New IAHPC appeals & what we hope you'll do with them: share!
- IAHPC Scholars heading to the EAPC World Congress.
- Reader Recommended CUDECA's YouTube channel.
- Great idea! A hospice café.
- Tidbits Palliversations video #3 on rural India; tips on talking to media about palliative care, 2 job postings for Doctors Without Borders, blogs from the frontlines in Khartoum, Sudan.
- What’s New in the IAHPC Calendar.
- Featured Story My Cancer Journey, by IAHPC Board Member Ebtesam Ahmed.
- Movie Review Live the Life You Please, reviewed by Frank Brennan. Also, a Q&A with retired palliative care physician Dr. David Clark about his 2022 play, Cicely and David (a different David!)
- Lessons from the Literature On My Radar AI in palliative care: ethical concerns & research opportunities, compiled by Barry Ashpole.
- Membership Matters
- Delicious! Delicioso! Délicieux! Pecan & Rolled Oats Pancakes recipe, by Debra Pledger-Fonte. Share one of your favorite recipes.
- New & Renewing Members’ List
- Last Month’s Donors
Editorial committee
Alison Ramsey
Senior Editor
Katherine Pettus
Advisor
Liliana de Lima
Advisor
Danilo Fritzler
Advisor
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