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...
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....
Palliative Care in a Public Health Crisis For many years now, there has been discussion about the role of public health approach to palliative care, recognising that death, dying and...