Title: Facilitating Conversations in Serious Illness Date: 8 - 9 July 2023 (Sat and Sun) As healthcare professionals, many of us may work with patients with life threatening illness. This...
Title: Paediatric Palliative Care Symposium Date: 9th - 11th September 2023 (Saturday - Monday) Speakers: Professor Brian S. Carter, USA Professor Rita Charon, USA Alexandra Mancini, UK Liese Groot-Alberts, New...
Title: Grief and Bereavement Care Workshop Date: Dec 17 – 18, 2022 (Sat and Sun) The workshop addresses the challenging aspect of loss, grief and bereavement of patients and their...
Voices for Hospices is an event which gives a voice to all in need of hospice and palliative care and to remind us that each year almost 40 million people...
Introduction: The symptom burden of patients with cancer and of those suffering from other life-limiting illness e.g. heart failure, renal failure, COPD, dementia can negatively impact on one’s quality of...
The Rights Of Palliative Care Patients In A Pandemic Palliative care is advocated to be a human right. During the Covid-19 pandemic, as health care systems come under pressure and...
Speaker: Dr Sayaka Takenouchi Speaker's Biography: Sayaka Takenouchi, Ph.D., R.N., M.P.H., is an associate professor at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Fundamental Nursing in Kyoto, Japan....
Siew Li Teoh (Charmaine) My Story When I first learned about mindfulness practice, I quickly experienced the benefits like mood-calming effect and improved mind clarity. Quoted from Jon Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness...