2017; Volume 18, No 10, October
Resources and Announcements
Each month, we publish a limited selection of items that may be of interest to our global readership. Contributions are welcomed but please observe the following:
- Content should describe opportunities to advance palliative care and improve knowledge, skills and networking, e.g. education and training, travel grants, access to online resources, etc.
- 150 words maximum.
- Content must be relevant to a global audience.
- Copy deadline: 21st of each month.
- Please submit your copy to the editor, together with a JPEG image, eg conference logo. We reserve the right to edit content.
Please also consider promoting your education and training events in the IAHPC Global Directory of Education in Palliative Care. It’s quick and easy – just submit your content online.
IAHPC Traveling Scholarships to the 2018 ALCP Congress, EAPC World Research Congress and ICPCN Conference
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) is pleased to announce it will provide the following scholarships.
- Twenty (20) scholarships to support the travel of palliative care workers to attend the IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Cuidados Paliativos de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos (ALCP) in Santiago, Chile on April 11-14, 2018. Deadline to apply is December 15, 2017. Results will be announced December 29, 2017.
- Five (5) scholarships to support the travel of palliative care workers to attend the 10th World Research Congress of the EAPC in Bern, Switzerland on May 24-26, 2018.Deadline to apply is January 20, 2018. Results will be announced February 15, 2018, and;
- Ten (10) scholarships to support the travel of palliative care workers to attend the 3rd ICPCN Conference in Durban, South Africa on May 30-June 2, 2018. Deadline to apply is January 31, 2018. Results will be announced early March 2018.
Applicants from all disciplines are welcome. In order to apply for a traveling scholarship, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Have not received grants from IAHPC in the past three years.
- Be current IAHPC members. If you wish to apply and are not an IAHPC member, you may join by clicking here.
Preference will be given to applicants:
- who have been IAHPC active members for two or more consecutive years.
- whose institution is an IAHPC active member. See institutional members
- who are living in Lower, Lower-Middle and Upper-Middle income categories as per the World Bank income classification data – view here.
- who are dedicated full time to palliative care in their current work.
- who graduated less than 10 years ago from university.
- who have an accepted abstract for poster/oral presentation. Proof of acceptance is required.
- who describe in their applications long-term goals which lead to improvements in any or all of the following areas: Service provision; education; availability of, and access to, medicines; and public policy.
This program offers funding for travel and registration only; applicants will need to secure funding from other sources to cover additional expenses.
More detailed information about the application process and the online form are available at the IAHPC website here.
If you need information on how to apply please email Genevieve Napier, IAHPC Manager of Programs and Projects.
Improve Quality of Life – Palliative Care Education Campaign – IAHPC joins Global #GivingTuesday Movement
As readers know from the many inspiring comments and reports from IAHPC Traveling Scholars, scholarships can make a huge difference to someone from a low-income country who is struggling to develop their skills and experiences in palliative care. A traveling scholarship opens eyes and minds and helps the grantee to acquire new skills that can be adapted to their own setting for the benefit of patients and families.
Fazle Noor Biswas from Bangladesh, one of 18 healthcare professionals from countries in Asia and the South Pacific region who received an IAHPC grant to attend the Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Singapore, July 2017.
We do all we can to stretch our modest funds but we would love to provide even more grants to more applicants. That's why we are teaming up with Global #GivingTuesday Movement, which pledges to provide additional traveling scholarships for the advancement of palliative care through education in our Improve Quality of Life – Palliative Care Education campaign.
To find out more, please visit the IAHPC website.
Facing Death Creatively: Resilience, Resistance, Reflection and Revolution – St. Christopher’s Hospice, London, UK – 13 October 2017
The Arts team at St. Christopher’s second conference, ‘Facing Death Creatively’, will explore how the Arts can make sense of and provide comfort at the end of life and in bereavement.
The conference is aimed at arts therapists, trainees, socially engaged artists and palliative care practitioners involved with people facing death and their families and communities.
Keynote speaker: Julia Samuel, registered psychotherapist and counselor and author of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving.
Topics include:
- How do the Creative Arts sit together as various disciplines with a shared objective?
- With low morale and ‘burn out’ common features in health care how can we support each other to take care of ourselves? Where do we find our resilience?
- How do we ‘envision’ creative supervision?
- How do we navigate resistance in the workplace, with staff and patients?
- How can we keep the Creative Arts at the heart of good palliative care in today’s financial and political climate?
- How is the visibility of the Creative Arts therapies a mode of resistance against consumerist materialistic culture?
View more here. Book online here.
Changing Prospects for Advanced Cancer – The Christie School of Oncology, Manchester, UK – 27 November 2017
Whether or not a patient with advanced stage cancer chooses to have chemotherapy, there are a wide variety of other ‘non-medical’ interventions in which they could also engage.
This study day is part of a series of educational events focusing on new approaches to ‘Living with and Beyond Cancer’. We will explore how ‘non-medical’ interventions can promote quality of life and wellbeing in patients with advanced cancer, and how these can be best delivered within the envelope of existing resources.
Intended audience
This event is open to anybody with an interest in managing advanced stage cancers including clinical and non-clinical staff. We also invite patients and carers to join us for the session
View the website for more information. Register online here.
Funded places available for patients and carers. Please email Education Events Administrator for information.