World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world.
This year’s theme is: Many diseases, many lives, many voices – palliative care for non-communicable conditions
The focus is on how people living with conditions, which are not infectious, can benefit from palliative care. Non-communicable conditions (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory conditions, diabetes) make up a large percentage of deaths worldwide.
Our highest calling is to provide comfort and compassionate care to those facing end of life by meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the whole
person and their loved ones. Our purpose is to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so they may live each day with dignity. Hospice is not about death – it is about living life as fully as possible. At Celtic Hospice, we affirm life and do not hasten or postpone death. It is our privilege to care for our patients and their loved ones.
If you would like to get involved in World Hospice Day, visit: http://www.worldday.org/get-involved/
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