Early palliative care – when should quality care start?

We have been talking about quality care at Palliverse this month a topic that has a lot of relevance to early palliative care.  The WHO talks about early palliative care as meaning care that is offered at the time of a life-limiting diagnosis.  In practice palliative care is often offered much later, and some have suggested that this means that real benefits are missed for many people.
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Elsewhere in the Palliverse – Weekend Reads

photo by David Mao itsdavoHere’s the latest collection of reads for your weekend, with palliative care news from around the world, research and social media advice, and a palliative pet care story. As always, please enjoy and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Today is World Refugee Day, at a time when world refugee numbers are at their highest since WWII. A new Palliative Care in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (PALCHE) network has launched to help address the unmet palliative care needs of the world’s >60 million refugees. Read about it (and find out how to get involved) at ehospice.

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