2018; Volume 19, No 12, December

The Table of Contents

• Message from the Chair and Executive Director Highlights of IAHPC projects and achievements throughout 2018, plus a few messages for all.
• Editor’s Corner
• Policy and Advocacy This month, IAHPC Advocacy Officer Dr. Katherine I. Pettus shares a pair of reports from IAHPC delegates who attended international meetings in October, and puts out a call for future delegates.
• Featured Article Tools to help regulate, manage the supply, control quality, and use internationally controlled essential medicines form the second part of our 2-part feature. An overview of the topic was published in the November issue.
• IAHPC Grants in Action A report from the 5th Kenya National Palliative Care Conference in Nairobi.
• IAHPC Book Reviews
  • Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, 5e.: A good review of palliative care nursing from the USA.
  • Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and evidence for Practice, 3e.: A good review of palliative care nursing from the UK.
  • Recollections: Remembering Through Sights and Sounds (DVDs): Stunning photography to go with three CDs of Room 217’s music.
  • Neuropalliative Care: A Guide to Improving the Lives of Patients and Families Affected by Neurological Disease: Insights into the palliative and end-of-life care needs of patients with neurological disease.
  • Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: One way of looking at improving communication in oncology and palliative care.
  • Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation: Written for the lay reader, this is about improving communication and planning.
• Media Watch

  Thematic Issue

  This issue of The Journal of Contemporary Social Services is focused on the robust intersection of palliative care with social work knowledge, values, and skills.

  Surveys & Solutions

  Suggestions for pediatric palliative care researchers, possible solutions for medication management, conflicting attitudes of doctors and prosecutors in Brazil toward end-of-life care.

  Article Abstracts

  • Interprofessional palliative care education for pediatric oncology clinicians: An evidence-based practice review. Central components for successful pediatric PC education programs are listed.
  • Access to palliative care for homeless people: Complex lives, complex care. Three key themes [that emerged in this study] were: “late access,” “capricious trajectory,” and “complex care.”
  • A systematic review in support of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, highlighting the large and varied body of research that exists in palliative care.
• Announcements
  • IAHPC Calendar of Events
  • Australia Hospice for Adolescents & Young Adults Planned
  • NHCPO 2019 Webinar Schedule
  • Palliative Care Outcome Scale Workshop in February
  Resources
  • Share Your Great Finds: Reader Recommended
  • If You Have a Moment...: Personal stories of those who received hospice care, in video format.
  • POS Developers Seek to Expand Offerings
• Introducing... The Association for Palliative and Hospice Care in Kyrgyzstan
• IAHPC Membership Matters
  • Deadlines have been set for 23 Traveling Scholarships. Now is the time to consider applying for scholarships to 1 of 3 conferences: EAPC, Oceanic PC, and African PC Association.
  • New and Renewing Members' List
• Donors
  • Fundraising Campaigns: Giving Tuesday Launches Library Fundraiser (and more!). It’s not too late to support a library that gives every member access to published best practices.
  • Your Donation Helps Those Who Need it Most. We are grateful for every gift, large or small; our work to relieve suffering is dependent on donors like you.
  • Last Month’s Donors

Regards,
Alison Ramsey, Senior Editor
William Farr, PhD, MD, Senior Adviser
Liliana de Lima, MHA, Executive Director
Danilo Fritzler, Webmaster