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Newsletter: November 2026 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear friends, As the festive season brings its warmth and light, I hope this November finds you and your loved ones in good health and good spirits. My heartfelt congratulations to every individual, team and institution across India that celebrated World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD)…
What does compassionate care look like when a patient is breathless, a caregiver is exhausted, or an urgent need arises at home? These questions found expression at the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD)International Conference, jointly organised by Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) and Alpha Palliative Care at Edamuttam, Thrissur, from 9–11 October…
On 10 October 2026, the world marked World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, highlighting the theme ‘Pain Management: An Essential Component of Palliative Care’, the central message highlighted was “Pain Management: An Essential Component of Palliative Care”. Beyond raising awareness of the need to relieve suffering among people who are bed-bound or living with life-limiting…
In neuro-palliative care, illness is never experienced by the suffering individual alone. Progressive neurological illness gradually changes routines, relationships, roles, and responsibilities within the family. For healthcare professionals, entering a suffering individual’s home often reveals dimensions of misery that may remain invisible within the hospital. This case reflects how a small number of home-based interventions,…
I am a social worker, but when I try to explain what I do in palliative care to others, I often struggle to put it into words. In a field so closely associated with medicine, pain, and survival, I sometimes find it difficult to explain where a social worker fits in. I carry no stethoscope,…
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.
