#PHPCI24 delegates 📣 Join our workshop on 23/10/24 at 11am ‘Away from words: Using art-making to alleviate death anxiety in the palliative care workforce’ Experience engagement in self-inquiry regarding death, dying & mortality & engage creatively as a collective community.

It’s happening!! Opening at the beautiful Buhren Bern theatre this morning Follow along for the next 4 days at #phpci2024 Share ideas, challenges and thoughts! @PHPalCare

The closing piece of music opening #PHPCI2024 in Bern, dedicated to the life and work of Robert Twycross, who died this week. We recognised the contribution, connection and compassion he brought to palliative care across the world. @PHPalCare

#PHPCI2024 delegates! You may spot something different when you return to the main hall…

Incredibly engaging plenary this morning by my mentor and colleague Kelli Stajduhar on palliative care among marginalized populations. #thisispalliativecare #PHPCI2024 Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care (ePAC)

Associate Professor Jason Mills discussing Global Compassion at the #PHPCI2024 Conference in Bern, Switzerland @PHPalCare earlier this week: “What might the role of self-compassion be within compassionate communities?”

Our workshop ‘Away from Words’ at Public Health Palliative Care International yesterday exploring how using art-making can alleviate death anxiety in the palliative care workforce. We turned our makings into a #phpci2024 conference community installation!

So well deserved!

[Bern declaration 2024] เช้าวันที่ 3 ของการประชุม #PHPCI2024 ที่ประชุมเสนอคำประกาศเบิร์น 2024 ดังนี้ครับ ทั่วโลกมีผู้คนหลายล้านคนประสบกับความเจ็บป่วยร้ายแรงหรือกำลังโศกเศร้าในแต่ละปี ในหลายประเทศ การตายและการสูญเสีย ถูกกดทับและปกปิดไว้เฉพาะในสถานพยาบาล ทำให้หลายคนไม่สามารถ

A real highlight of #phpci24 = Hearing from Christian Ntizimira on the concept of Ubuntu. "I am because we are." Thank you for helping us to understand the meaning of dignity and compassion.

When u are well, u belong to yourself, but when you are sick, u belong to family. A fantastic presentation by Christian Ntizimira workshop *Africa in the spotlight: at #PHPCI2024 Bern. While this statement is a reality in many parts of the world like ours, it is strange in other parts.

What a surprise right in the middle of the city - a truly beautiful ritual & exquisite way to engage people on death - we’re all going to encounter it at some point. #PHPCI2024

Associate Professor Jason Mills presenting PalliLEARN: an international collaboration to cultivate compassionate communities at the #PHPCI2024 conference, in partnership with PalliativeCareSA and Mary-Ann Shantz

Fantastic discussion on children’s understanding of death during C19 from Karolinska Institutet & the need for death education #PHPCI2024

Progressing the Death Literacy Index: the development of a revised version (DLI-R) and a short format (DLI-9) - Kerrie Noonan, Andrea Grindrod, Sumina Shrestha, Sora Lee, Rosemary Leonard, Therese Johansson, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…