Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative & End-of-Life Care

06/03/2018

Seats are filling up on the second day of CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully) workshop. Today we are learning from more of our international collaborators about adapting CALM therapy to their cultural settings. https://t.co/kGSVhElxR1

“Seats are filling up on the second day of CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully) workshop. Today we are learning from more of our international collaborators about adapting CALM therapy to their cultural settings. https://t.co/kGSVhElxR1”

03/03/2018

Patient-reported functional status in outpatients with advanced cancer: correlation with physician-reported scores and with survival https://t.co/gTn6T8h1C9

Performance status measures are increasingly completed by patients in outpatient cancer settings but are not well validated for this use.

02/27/2018

“The biomedical sciences had begun to dominate our conception of health care, and he warned that “healing is replaced with treating, caring is supplanted by managing, and the art of listening is taken over by technological procedures.”

What I learned when a famous 96-year-old physician became my patient.

02/21/2018

You can nominate a volunteer at Princess Margaret too!

“Are u a Princess Margaret patient or caregiver who has an amazing nurse, doctor, social worker, dietician, occupational therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, admin person etc that you want to acknowledge? Please nominate her to the Michael Kamin Award! https://t.co/HBVC3vBqus”

02/01/2018

For patients fighting cancer, PTSD is one more battle /via

New research shows that at least 20 per cent of patients develop PTSD within six months of diagnosis – a rate similar to that of combat veterans

01/18/2018

“Dr Ahmed Alawamer talked about the barriers and potential solutions for having advance care planning conversations with Muslim patients and families. Some presentations will be available on our YouTube channel. Stay tuned!”

01/13/2018

5 more days till GIPPEC Symposium on Palliative & End-of-Life Care for Muslims

GIPPEC is devoted to promoting and developing interdisciplinary research that addresses the medical, psychological, social, legal, ethical, cultural and religious problems related to psychosocial and palliative care of individuals with advanced and terminal disease.

01/10/2018

2017 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Special Lecture: “Universal Health Coverage and Palliative Care: Don’t Leave Those Suffering Behind”: https://t.co/hX8nr9Tc4G

The National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly’s (NICE) End-of-Life Issues Theme Team - in collaboration with the Global Institute of Psychosocial,

01/08/2018

10 more days to go: GIPPEC Symposium on Palliative & End-of-Life Care for Muslims

GIPPEC is devoted to promoting and developing interdisciplinary research that addresses the medical, psychological, social, legal, ethical, cultural and religious problems related to psychosocial and palliative care of individuals with advanced and terminal disease.

01/08/2018

Jimmie Holland, Who Cared for the Cancer Patient’s Mind, Dies at 89

In a groundbreaking field, Dr. Holland addressed patients’ depression and anxiety and rejected what she called “the tyranny of positive thinking.”

12/29/2017

"She was a kind and unpretentious person — perhaps that came from her Texas roots — who was more interested in supporting others than she was in promoting herself." Founder, 'Mother' of Psycho-Oncology, Jimmie Holland Dies.

Dr Holland founded the American Psychosocial Oncology Society, the International Psycho-Oncology Society, and the international journal Psycho-Oncology.

12/29/2017

Oncology World Mourns the Loss of Jimmie C. Holland, MD, Founder, Field of Psycho-Oncology

Dr. Holland was the Attending Psychiatrist and Wayne E. Chapman Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Internationally recognized as the Founder of the Field of Psycho-Oncology, Dr. Holland was the i...