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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,…
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…
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…
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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