The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) has launched the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) 2024 toolkit in seven languages. The theme for WHPCD is Ten Years Since the Resolution: How are we doing? and this year’s World Day will be on 12 October. World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) is a unified day of action in support of hospice and palliative care. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary caregiving approach that optimises quality of life and mitigates health related suffering among people with very serious illnesses and their carers. WHPCD has been marked every year for the last 18 years.
The WHPCA will host a free WHPCD community strengthening toolkit webinar on 4 September 2024 at 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) and we would like to invite you to register in advance HERE. The purpose of hosting the webinar is to walk you through the toolkit to help you better understand how to use it effectively. Faculty this year will include:
- Dr Stephen Connor, Executive Director WHPCA (host)
- Mr. Howard Kinyua, WHPCA/ICPCN Communications Manager
- Dr Helena Davies, Advocacy Officer WHPCA, & Coordinator WHPCA People with lived experience program
- Dr Megan Doherty, WHO Palliative Care Consultant
