IAHPC Hospice Palliative Care News Digest, February 2021

Table of Contents

• Message from the Chair and Executive Director  Our opinion of the new WHO guidelines for the management of chronic pain in children.
• Policy and Advocacy  Dr. Katherine Pettus delivers good news from the WHO Executive Board meeting, including this: palliative care is in the final text of a resolution on essential services for people with disabilities. Plus other advocacy news, including a call for input on age and gender discrimination in palliative care.
• IAHPC News & Calendar
  • How to extend your membership up to 2½ years at no cost
  • Join IAHPC? Why not!
  • Also: EAPC is accepting abstracts for its congress until Feb. 14, 2021; two free, online, reputable sources of information for health care workers during COVID-19; and the Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association seeks an executive director.
  • What’s New in the IAHPC Calendar
• Featured Story  Promoting resilience, preventing burnout— approaches to help you design your best tactics.
• IAHPC Book Reviews  by Dr. Roger WoodruffPalliative Care Book of the Month COMMUNITY PALLIATIVE CARE AND COVID-19: A handbook for clinicians who care for palliative patients with COVID-19 in community settings  A clear and useful picture of the interface between community palliative care and COVID-19.

  Other Reviews

  • USING GUIDED IMAGERY AND HYPNOSIS IN BRIEF THERAPY AND PALLIATIVE CARE Brief therapy to help patients cope and improve their psychological well-being.
  • EMBRACING LIFE AND GATHERING WISDOM: Theological, Pastoral & Clinical Insights into Human Flourishing at the End of Life Patient spirituality viewed from a slightly different angle.
  • PROVIDING HOME CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS: A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners About geriatric mental health practice within the patient’s home.
  • THE HOSPICE HERITAGE: Celebrating Our Future A 1999 celebration of hospice care in the USA.
  • RELIGIOUS LITERACY IN HOSPICE CARE: Challenges and Controversies I found this book very difficult to read.

  And Something Different…

  • PARTING WORDS: 9 Lessons for a Remarkable Life Thoughts of a centenarian who survived an appalling childhood.
• App Review  Pallikare, an Android app developed in India for clinicians
• Lessons from the LiteratureUnder My Microscope  IAHPC Research Advisor Dr. Tania Pastrana highlights an article on low-dose methadone as an add-on to opioid therapy when treating cancer.

  Media Watch: COVID-19  Barry Ashpole selects articles on: treating patients with specialized PC needs at home, COVID patients’ home care needs, and psychological risk factors following COVID-19 deaths.

• Membership Matters
  • IAHPC members: breakdown by country income
  • Members’ Impact
  • New & Renewing Members’ List
• List of Donors

Alison Ramsey
Senior Editor

Katherine Pettus
PhD, Advisor

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MHA, Executive Director

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