Dr Balfour Mount died yesterday. Our clinical and spiritual leader, he was the first to use the term “palliative care” and opened the Royal Vic PCU. He inspired all of us to work with energy and integrity . We are all a bit more lonely today. Godspeed, Bal Mount

Chilling indeed ☹️

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Thanks Nathan Gray!

An important submission…

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Well done on your excellent advocacy!! ✊🏽

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“Because we can get through anything if we have people to lean on.”

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‘A Blatant Situation’ — New leaks on Canada's failing MAID safeguards In Ontario, euthanasia regulators tracked 428 possible violations of the law and never referred a case to police

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A *report* on social care reform by 2028.

Meanwhile assisted dying / assisted suicide could - in fact is likely to - be legalised and implemented by 2027.

How do we ensure people don’t ‘choose’ an assisted death because they can’t get the care they need?

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Merry Christmas…

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#AssistedDeath / #AssistedDying poses a massive problem for informed consent. Every other medical intervention is rigorously tested to reveal its burdens and benefits. How can we test what it's like to be dead? No truly informed consen tis possible. #Ethics #HAPC #MedSky

If other medical specialities were stigmatized like palliative care #hapc #palliativecare

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Thank you Michael D Higgins for this message 🙏🏽

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B.C. family alleging wrongful death after man euthanized while on day pass from psychiatric ward A B.C. family is claiming wrongful death after a 52-year-old man with back pain and a history of mental illness received MAID n 2022.

my comments on #MAID #euthanasia of patient hospitalized under MH act provisions: appears to raise "concerns that non-specialists feel comfortable to end the life of persons with mental illness who need care and protection"
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The importance of social work and palliative care in aged care cannot be overlooked. Thanks Palliative Care Australia and @jowoodSW for these insights and advocacy.

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YouTube video by Compassion Research Lab Compassion Fatigue: Is Compassion a Finite Resource?

Compassion fatigue is a term that is thrown around a lot these days but what is the evidence for compassion fatigue? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ml5... #spiritualcare #hospice/palliative

Today is #UHCDAY2024! It is not #UHC without #palliativecare though! Since 86%of the worlds people with PC needs still lack access to services and meds according to @WHO there’s lots off work to do! Woohoo! Join @iahpc.org & let’s get it done!

Today is #HumanRightsDay2024. @IAHPC reminds our members, friends, donors and followers that #Palliativecare is a component of the right to health for all people with serious health related suffering. We welcome you to join us to help realize our vision of a world free from health related suffering.

Symptom expression is always multidimensional

FIG. 1. (A) Percentage of individuals receiving hospice care, and (B) with short hospice length of stay (≤7 days) by nursing home stay category (n = 26,261).

@j-palliativemed.bsky.social End-of-life care in nursing homes: study of Medicaid decedents finds individuals with nursing home stays used hospice less often & for shorter duration www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Life and death on the waitlist - Aged Care Insite An 86-year-old Adelaide Hills man has tragically personified the problem's surrounding assessments i

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RCPsych comments on vote for assisted dying Bill in England and Wales A total of 330 MPs have voted in favour of moving the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through to the next stage of the legislative process in Westminster while 275 have voted against it.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists have released a statement on Friday’s vote on assisted dying.

“There are … unanswered questions about whether it is possible to provide adequate protections and safeguards … and if so what these measures would be”

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