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Newsletter: October 2026 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear Colleagues and Friends, October brings World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD), observed on the second Saturday of the month (10 October this year). The theme for 2026 is “Pain Management: An Essential Part of Palliative Care.” Relieving pain in all its dimensions, physical, psychological, social,…
If someone had asked me what palliative care meant a couple of years ago, I would have answered with complete confidence and I would have been completely wrong. Like many people, I believed palliative care simply meant taking your loved one home when treatment had ended. In many ways, that belief was reinforced by the…
Are you afraid of death? Are you ready for it? Most of us are afraid of the unknown. Death is often spoken about in hushed voices, as though discussing it might somehow make it more real. We avoid conversations about dying, even though death is the inevitable end of every life. Perhaps what we need…
Today, during a session with an elderly man receiving palliative care from our team, his 23-year-old son asked me a heartbreaking question: “Does feeling like my father is already gone and preparing myself for his death make me a bad son?” “What makes you say that you are preparing for his death?” I asked. He…
IAPC, in partnership with Alpha Palliative Care, will organise an International Conference on Palliative Care from 9–11 October 2026 at Alpha Hospice, Edamuttam, Thrissur, Kerala, commemorating World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. The conference, themed “Pain Management: An Essential Part of Palliative Care,” will feature scientific sessions, a hospice tour and walkathon. Registrations are open.
IAPC Gold Medal for Nurses 2026: Step 1 Results We are delighted to announce the results of the Step 1 online screening test for IAPC’s Gold Medal for Nurses 2026. A total of 139 nurses registered, of whom 101 were eligible to sit the screening test, held between 1 and 31 August 2026. highest number…
Newsletter: September 2026 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear friends, Warm greetings to all! As we wrapped up a month filled with festive celebrations across the country, I hope each of you had the opportunity to cherish these moments with family and friends. Despite our diverse cultural traditions, this festive spirit is a beautiful reminder…
Today’s home care visits to seven homes have left a deep weight in our hearts. We met children and daughters-in-law caring for mothers in their 90s, despite the struggles of poverty, age and illness. We met a 90-year-old mother caring for her son, who is over 60 years, and suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease…
Visible injuries are easy to name. A fracture appears on an X-ray; a wound can be dressed. They draw attention, intervention, and often sympathy. What remains less visible is harder to recognise: emotional trauma, grief, and a quieter, more diffuse form of suffering; existential distress. Years of working in palliative care have shaped my understanding…
He was 39 and his cancer progressed faster than the family could fathom. Amidst anger, denial, bargaining and blame there was a man battling excruciating and unbearable pain. Like molten lava the pain engulfed his entire being. I remember his humour in middle of a pain crisis, his flashing a smile every time we greeted…
