Are we receiving and giving proper Palliative Care in Borneo Island, Sabah?

Definitions
An Expert Committee of the World Health Organization in 2002 approved this revised definition of palliative care:
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

Palliative Care:
• provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
• affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
• intends neither to hasten or postpone death
• integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of care
• offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death
• offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient's illness and in their own bereavement
• uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counseling, if indicated
• will enhance the quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of the illness
• is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications

Workshop and Training Empowering the Caregivers of Older Adults

Workshop outline:

a. Facts about caregiving: Who's involved and what's the cost?
b. Cultural perspective on caregiving.
c. Care burden: What it is and how to assess it.
d. Caregivers and the risk of abuse.
e. Crisis intervention applied to the caregiving experience

Trainer: Fr. Peter Abas

Date: August, 2011
Time:
Place: TBA

Dementia Awareness Training and Workshop

DEMENTIA AWARENESS TRAINING AND WORKSHOP
The sessions are tailored to meet the needs of care professionals, managers, staff and volunteers or those who, as part of the role, need an understanding of Dementia and how it effects individuals.

Outline of workshop:

a. Dementia awareness

b. Responding to people with dementia

c. Enganging with people with dementia

Trainer: Fr. Peter Abas

Date: October, 2011
Venue: TBA

International Research Summer School 2011_LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, UK

WEEK TWO (June 27 -July 2, 2011)

The purpose of the second week of the Summer School is to support students in their private study. Supervision will be given throughout the week with an opportunity for review and goal setting on the final day.

Students will meet each morning at 9.30 am in the International Observatory for End of Life Care Resource Room (Bowland South, room B225) to discuss and plan that day’s activities. There will be further opportunities to meet with other Lancaster University faculty for specific guidance and advice. Throughout the week there will be full access to the information resources of the International Observatory on End of Life Care and the University library.














We are grateful for the continued sponsorship of the Irish Hospice Foundation.

Workshop: Caring of the Elderly and Quality of Life Approach

Title: Caring for the Elderly and Quality of Life Approach
Date: TBA
Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm
Venue: September, 2011

Trainer: Fr. Peter Abas

Workshop Outline:
a. Understand the caregiving role

b. Roles and responsibilities of care givers

c. Managing Elderly person's needs

Church Documents and teachings -END of LIFE-

Church Documents and Teachings

• Responses to Certain Questions Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, August 1, 2007 (En Español)
• Commentary on Nutrition and Hydration, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, August 1, 2007 (En Español)
• Address of John Paul II to the Participants in the International Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State, March 20, 2004 (En Español)
• Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Fourth Edition, NCCB/USCCB, June 15, 2001
• Statement on Euthanasia, USCCB, Administrative Committee, September 12, 1991
• Declaration on Euthanasia , Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, May 5, 1980 (En Español )

cut and paste the link below ....

http://www.usccb.org/prolife/programs/rlp/2010/docs/hilliardpamphlet.pdf

Lancaster University UK

Group of International participants from around the world who came to attend this course at Lancaster University.

Japan, Borneo, Germany, Uganda, Ireland, Spain, Greece, USA and UK.

International Observatory On End of Life Care

2011 International Research of Summer School

Research Sponsored by:

Irish Hospice Foundation
Lancaster University School of Health and Medicine