#palliativecare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #palliativecare, aggregated by home.social.
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Whatever happens next with the campaign for the legalisation of assisted dying, perhaps the most positive thing to come out of the recent debates & legislative deliberations, is a wider recognition of the vital & positive role of palliative care.
For both sides, I hope that while they may disagree on the legislative aspect(s), a renewed emphasis on palliative care & its expended funding (if it appears) will be seen as a good result....
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https://www.europesays.com/people/222695/ Andy Burnham to miss crucial assisted dying vote as legislation remains on knife edge #AndyBurnham #AssistedDeath #AssistedDying #ControversialLegislation #KeirStarmer #PA #PalliativeCare #Parliament #TheCommons
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Can you tell someone will die months before it happens? A hospice nurse shares the clues.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/hospice-nurse-month-dying-symptoms-ex1/
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A documentary about medical aid in dying does the most good when the people who need it most can actually watch it, and now “Take Me Out Feet First,” the documentary series developed with Compassion & Choices, is available for free on YouTube. Season 2 has been announced and is set to premiere on the same channel next year.
https://compassionandchoices.org/blog/take-me-out-feet-first-season-1-on-youtube/ #maid #death #endoflife #palliativecare #compassionandchoices
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No One Dies Lying
On the twenty-second of May, 1929, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a woman named Zenana Shepard sent her nurse to a closet for a bottle of bootleg whiskey. She said the liquor had a strange smell and a strange taste, and she asked whether enough remained in the bottle to test it for poison. Then she said the sentence that would outlive her by four years and travel all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." The doctor was her husband, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the Army medical corps, and the government would later argue he had salted that whiskey with bichloride of mercury because he loved a woman named Grace Brandon and his wife declined to divorce him. Zenana Shepard died on the fifteenth of June. Her husband was convicted of her murder, and her sentence, the spoken one, did much of the convicting. […] -
Why you should use the healthcare strategy "ask, tell, ask" when you want to connect fruitfully in a learning environment.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/consulting-2/2015/11/ask-tell-ask
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The women and girls of Lambano Sanctuary still need your donations of sanitary pads and toiletries throughout the year. Every little bit helps! 🙏
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Privacy Friendly #Schmerztagebuch App:
https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/Schmerztagebuch.php
Klingt echt super, habe zwei positive Erste-Hand-Erfahrungen. Kleiner Nachteil: Nicht über den App-Store, sondern manuell zu installieren.
Spread the word!
#PainNurse #Schmerzen #PalliativeCare #Analgesie #Onkologie #OpenSource #FOSS #FOAM #deGoogle
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#SundayCatchUp – Inspirational couple walk and rolled 160 miles in seven days to support local hospice
READ HERE:👉 https://b31.org.uk/2026/05/inspirational-couple-walk-and-rolled-160-miles-in-seven-days-to-support-local-hospice/
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#SellyPark
#PalliativeCare
#BirminghamHospice
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Inspirational couple walk and rolled 160 miles in seven days to support local hospice
READ HERE:👉 https://b31.org.uk/2026/05/inspirational-couple-walk-and-rolled-160-miles-in-seven-days-to-support-local-hospice/
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#Fundraising
#Hospice
#SellyPark
#PalliativeCare
#BirminghamHospice
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
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Longtime BBC panellist admits ‘I don’t know how long I’ve got to live’ in last appearance on gardening show https://www.allforgardening.com/1770887/longtime-bbc-panellist-admits-i-dont-know-how-long-ive-got-to-live-in-last-appearance-on-gardening-show/ #BbcRadio4 #garden #GardenersQuestionTime #gardening #MatthewBiggs #PalliativeCare #SergeHillProject
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Einwilligung zur #Intensivtherapie: Übereinstimmung von Angehörigen- und Patientenmeinung. Eine #Simulationsstudie.
Darin: "Viele Notfall- und Intensivpatient:innen können aufgrund der Schwere ihrer #Erkrankung ihre Wünsche zu Behandlung, Therapiezielen und erwarteter #Lebensqualität nicht kommunizieren, sodass wir Ärzt:innen darüber mit den Angehörigen sprechen müssen."
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„Helfen Sie mir sterben?!“
Zur Konfrontation von Pflege(fach)personen mit Todeswünschen oder Bitten um #assistierterSuizid …
https://www.pflegeethikkommission-nds.de/empfehlungen/
… hat die #Ethikkommission für Berufe in der #Pflege Niedersachsen nun erstmals Wahrnehmungs- und Verhaltenshilfen veröffentlicht.
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Ethikkommission will Pflegende stärker einbeziehen:
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Die #Ethikkommission für Berufe in der #Pflege Niedersachsen hat vorgeschlagen, #Pflegefachpersonen in den Diskussionen und der gesetzlichen Regelung zum assistierten #Suizid stärker zu berücksichtigen.
Quelle: https://www.bibliomed-pflege.de/news/pflegefachpersonen-staerker-in-diskussionen-einbeziehen