Tag: Compassion

Walking Alongside the Family: A Psychosocial Journey Through Neuropalliative Home Care

Date:

October 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Caregivers, Compassion, End-Of-Life Care, Home Care, Interesting Reads, Neurology, Stories

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,…

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When Listening Becomes Care

Date:

October 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads, Social Work

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,…

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The Biggest Gap in Palliative Care isn’t the accessibility, it’s Awareness

Date:

September 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Awareness, Cancer, Compassion, Empathy, End-Of-Life Care, Interesting Reads

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…

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Dignity in Life, Dignity in Death

Date:

September 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Awareness, Compassion, Dignity, Empathy, End-Of-Life Care, Interesting Reads

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…

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Between Empty Chairs and Weathered Homes: A Psycho-Oncologist’s Journey

Date:

September 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Awareness, Cancer, Caregivers, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads

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…

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Every Home Is a Lesson in Life

Date:

August 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Awareness, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads

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…

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When the Language of Suffering Fails Us: A Clinician’s Reflection

Date:

August 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Awareness, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads

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…

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Gratitude

Date:

August 29, 2026

Category: News, Features

Tags: Articles, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads

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…

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A Cup of Coffee, A Cup of Gratitude

Date:

July 29, 2026

Category: News

Tags: Articles, Communication, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads

One of the most beautiful moments during home visits is something that can never be documented in a patient record—the inevitable cup of coffee waiting for us. We receive the same invitation in almost every home: “Doctor, please have a cup of coffee before you leave.” Sometimes it’s coffee, sometimes tea, sometimes a small snack…

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When Words Fall Silent: Communication Beyond Words in Palliative Care

Date:

July 27, 2026

Category: News

Tags: Articles, Communication, Compassion, Empathy, Interesting Reads

When Words Fall Silent: Communication Beyond Words in Palliative Care Mr Anshid C. I., Chennai “Communication is the key.” Everyone working in palliative care has probably heard this sentence many times. Classes on communication, training sessions, models, and protocols are part of our learning. We are taught how to talk to patients and their families,…

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