Announcements
The mentally ill may terminate their lives?
Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1918 where it allows nonresidents to participate even without the involvement of a physician. Recently the Swiss high court upheld the right of persons suffering from “incurable,
permanent, severe psychological disorders” to terminate their own lives.”
To read more about this, go to the recent Hastings Center Report at:
http://tinyurl.com/25p22e
Answers to All Your Questions about Certification
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has a new Web site to help members navigate the transition to American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification. American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine diplomates
can find information about their certification status and directory updates. For ABMS eligibility requirements and for more information
www.aahpm.org/email/link_redir/12994/www.aahpm.org/certification/
One Giant Step in Georgia
Congratulations to Georgia! Dimitri Kordzaya recently announced that "Palliative Care" was officially approved (included in the official list) as a subspecialty in four specialties: "Internal Medicine", "Surgery", "Oncology" and "Critical
Medicine".
The Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin
Dear Colleagues,
The Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin, and a Collaborating Center for the World Health Organization (WHO) has prepared its Annual Report for 2006 for the WHO. As you will see, the report highlights our continuing efforts using WHO guidelines to
improve cancer and AIDS patients' access to pain medications throughout the world. The PPSG staff is grateful for the opportunity to have collaborated with you and acknowledge that we could not have made such progress without your valuable contributions. We look forward
to continued collaboration as we strive toward our ultimate goal of pain relief for everyone in need.
This and previous annual reports can be found at:
www.painpolicy.wisc.edu/publicat/annrepts.htm.
We welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.
Best regards,
Jody Garthwaite
Diana Legacy Fund
“On May 15, a celebration and national launch of the Diana Legacy Fund was held in San Diego… The Diana Legacy Fund was established by the National Hospice Foundation www.nationalhospicefoundation.org to
support the work of the Foundation
for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa www.fhssa.org, which helps improve the lives of patients and their families by expanding hospice and palliative care services throughout the sub-Saharan region. Both these organizations, and the
affiliated National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization www.nhpco.org, are based in Alexandria, Va….”
Diana Legacy Fund - 1700 Diagonal Road - Suite 625 - Alexandria, VA 22314
703/516-4928 - 703/837-1233 (fax) - www.nhpco.org
VOICES FOR HOSPICES 6TH OCTOBER 2007
Dear Friends
CONCERT LIST
I am pleased to be able to tell you that the Concert List is now on our web-site www.voicesforhospices.org. Look for the Latest News heading. The list is filed in alphabetical order of country and then
towns where concerts will take place. Inclusion in the list will ensure that those who wish to attend as audience and those who want to come along to sing at come and sing performances, will know what is happening in their area.
If information about a concert you are organising is not on it, then I need the details urgently. You can contact me via the web-site registration form or by e-mail.
The list will be updated every month initially and later every week as new concerts are announced.
POEM
Our favourite poem has now been put to music and various downloadable versions will be available on the web-site soon.
THEME
Our theme this year is Across the Ages from Children to Older People.
NEXT DATE
To help you make plans to take part in our next Voices for Hospices event; this will be on World Hospice and Palliative Care day 2009, which will take place on Saturday 10th October 2009.
Thank you for your support
Alex
Complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM)
To address the needs of cancer patients seeking CAM information, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine developed a publication
to guide a patient’s process in seeking CAM resources.
Thinking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine features:
- Basic descriptions of CAM modalities.
- Guidance for evaluating CAM information.
- A list of reliable CAM resources.
- Tips for talking with traditional healthcare providers about CAM
- Suggestions for finding certified CAM providers.
Free copies of Thinking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine are available. To order this booklet, please call NCI’s Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER or visit www.cancer.gov/publications
To view Thinking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine online, please visit
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/thinking-about-CAM
To view a promotional flyer for this booklet, please visit
www.ncipoet.org/promoToolsTreatmentEducation.cfm and select the first link.
Clearing House Program Announcement
As it was announced in previous editions of our NL, during April we sent the final shipment of books and journals from our Clearing House Program as we have closed our Clearing House Program. Some of those programs and hospices have started receiving this last shipment and we are starting
to receive thank you notes and letters of gratitude. This section includes some of those.
Since the inception of the program in 2002 we have sent more than 4 tons of books and journals to 532 programs, individuals, hospices, hospitals, academic centers and libraries around the world. It is impossible for us to know the extent to which these publications are read or used
by students, teachers and clinical workers or whether they contributed to changes in practice that benefited patient care. However, we have positive testimonials from many individuals who have received shipments which leads us to believe that this program has fulfilled its purpose.
We are very grateful with all those donors to the program during these past years, especially Oxford University Press, Ms Pam Bennett from Purdue Pharma, the Pain and Policy Studies Group at Madison, Wisconsin, Marilyn Herleth from the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and the
Journal of Palliative Care among others. They all contributed to the success of the program through their consistent shipment of material and donations.
Liliana De Lima, MHA
IAHPC Executive Director
Thank You Note
Dear Liliana,
Today we received from you a big box of books. Thank you so much!
Love,
Kati Muzbek
Magyar Hospice Alapítvány
Budapest, Hugary
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