Palliative Care: new multilingual resources

How many of you are involved in the care of people at the end of their lives – who may have cancer, AIDS or pneumonia?

Helping them and their carers to establish a good standard of physical, mental and spiritual care, with pain relief and medication, may make their last months easier. The World Association for Palliative Care works in this field. Now they are making their resources more available in more languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Russian, Swahili and French:

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