Daffodil Standards for care homes
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), in partnership with the end of life charity Marie Curie, have enhanced the 'Daffodil Standards' to ‘support GPs and their teams in providing consistently high-quality palliative and end of life care specifically focusing on older patients living in care homes’. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 1, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Covid-19 vaccine: Woman to restart chemotherapy after jab
Vicki Meredew, who received a leftover vaccine dose, will continue palliative treatment for a brain tumour. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: Palliative Care in South Africa Is Sorely Lacking, Say Experts
[Daily Maverick] As the second wave rages on, trauma and grief are gripping the nation. Victims of Covid-19 are dying in isolation, while loved ones carry the psychological and emotional impact of not being able to say goodbye. Now experts are making the case for palliative care as a necessity to alleviate suffering in the face of the pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Rachel Clarke: ‘NHS staff are burning with frustration and grief at this second wave’
The palliative care doctor and author on a year of Covid in UK hospitals and her hopes for the vaccine‘The air reeks of invisible danger’ - read an extract from Rachel Clarke’s pandemic memoir BreathtakingYou wroteBreathtakingtowards the start of the pandemic when you couldn ’t sleep. Did you envisage that the world would still be looking the way it does almost a year later?No, I truly did not. I started writing the book as a forlorn kind of nocturnal therapy at a time when cases were going down, it was midsummer, there was hope and optimism in the air. And although I was sure there would be a resurgence, never for...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 24, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Lisa O'Kelly Tags: Coronavirus NHS Hospitals Autobiography and memoir Health, mind and body books Culture Science Microbiology World news Society Source Type: news
Coronavirus Vaccinations In Massachusetts: New Groups Of Phase 1 Health Care Workers Now Eligible
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - January 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Covid-19 Boston, MA Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local Coronavirus Coronavirus Vaccine Source Type: news
Finding meaning in the life of a loved one who dies is part of grief
We ’ve all lost so much through the pandemic, but by making sense of it we can look forwardDeath came early into David Kessler ’s life. He was just 13 when his mother died, and her loss prompted his decision to forge a career working in palliative care. He went on to collaborate with psychiatristElisabeth K übler-Ross, a central figure in the field, who devised the five stages of grief. In lectures he would talk about his mother ’s death and remind his audiences that no one is exempt from loss; and yet, he says today, in his heart he believed his personal experience of devastating grief was behind him, rather than a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 17, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Joanna Moorhead Tags: Death and dying Society Coronavirus Life and style Psychology Science Health & wellbeing Source Type: news
End of life care, RCGP (updated 11th January 2021)
This resource provides guidance on dealing with palliative and end of life care, and supporting carers throughout the pandemic. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Perception of palliative care in South Asian populations
(McMaster University) The results showed that seventy per cent of participants in the study had a lack of understanding of palliative care and forty-four per cent thought that palliative care went against their values and beliefs. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
End of life care, RCGP (updated 6th January 2021)
This resource provides guidance on dealing with palliative and end of life care, and supporting carers throughout the pandemic. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Deaths keep coming at one L.A. hospital as workers weep
Marwa Kilani, a palliative care physician at a Mission Hills hospital, has to take care of her own emotional well-being while also being a source of support for colleagues, patients and patients' families as the toll of COVID-19 worsens. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - January 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Francine Orr , Leila Miller Source Type: news
Key Hospice Priorities Included in Year-End Legislation
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) provides comments on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which passed both chambers of Congress on December 21, 2020. Highlights hospice related provisions, including the Rural Access to Hospice Act, Helping Our Senior Populations in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act, and included sequestration relief. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - December 22, 2020 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care Improves QOL in Leukemia
Those receiving IPC were more likely to report discussing end - of - life preferences, were less likely to receive chemo at end of life (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - December 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Nursing, Oncology, Psychiatry, Journal, Source Type: news
Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care Improves QOL in Leukemia
FRIDAY, Dec. 18, 2020 -- For patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) receiving intensive chemotherapy, there are substantial improvements in quality of life (QOL) and psychological distress with integrated palliative and oncology care (IPC),... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 18, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Palliative care improves quality of life for patients with advanced blood cancer
(Massachusetts General Hospital) A first-of-its-kind intervention integrating palliative care early in the course of cancer therapy for patients with advanced acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a highly aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow, resulted in substantial improvements in patients' quality of life, mood and end-of-life care, a team of investigators has found. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 17, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Major concerns over quality of care for those dying at home
A lack of face-to-face appointments during the coronavirus pandemic has significantly worsened the palliative care being provided to people at the end of their life, according to a survey of specialists. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 16, 2020 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
