World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Theme 2025

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Theme 2025 
ehospice; by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) team; 2/18/25 
Every year the second Saturday of October marks World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD). This year WHPCD will be on Saturday 11 October 2025. Each year the WHPCD campaign has a theme that is carefully thought through and selected by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) team.  The theme for 2025 is Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care. ... More than 60 million people both adults and children need palliative care services every year with over 80% living in low-middle-income countries (LMIC’s) countries. WHPCA has estimated that over half of the need for palliative care is being met in high-income countries while only 4% of the bigger need is met in LMICs, a continuing and shocking disparity.
Editor's note: Get this on your calendars for October 11th. What can you and your organization do to help "Achieve the Promise" worldwide? To increase awareness in your service areas? (Note that internationally, the word "palliative" is often used for "hospice.") Click here for more information from ehospice/WHPCA.