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Globally, Autistic Pride Day is celebrated on June 18 every year. On this occasion we present to you two very interesting articles that highlight how integrating the elements of palliative care help improve the quality of life of autistic individuals and their families. Autism Spectrum Disorder and It’s Management – Dr. Procheta Mahanta, Assam Don…
Mother’s day 9th May The World celebrates Mother’s Day on 9th May each year, with renewed enthusiasm, grandeur and gratitude. Our Social media networks, the commercial ads and every other platform get flooded with portraits of a ‘Mother’ and enlists her various attributes and virtues of unconditional love, sacrifice, patience, heroic, suffering and many more……
The World Social Work day is a day, especially ear marked in a year, to celebrate social workers across the globe to appreciate and acknowledge their crucial and phenomenal contribution to mankind. The International Federation of Social Workers (www.ifsw.org) declared ‘Ubuntu: I am Because We Are’ as the theme for 2021 as it highlights the…
Living Well with Kidney Disease: Is it a goal or a dream for children with chronic kidney disease? Dr. Dharshan Rangaswamy, Head for Division of Paediatric Nephrology; Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology, Kasturba Hospital and Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Globally, the second Thursday of March, is recognized as World Kidney…
How the care you provide makes the patient and family relieved from their suffering! Not only the physical suffering; here is an experience shared by Dr. Biji M. S. of Malabar Cancer Centre, Thalasseri. Chandramathi’s (name changed) disease, Carcinoma rectum, was in an advanced stage when she first came to our Palliative clinic, a year…
Meheli Chakraborty narrates a loving husband’s tribute to his wife by providing care to hundreds of needy people. Santanu was a musician. Ruma was the lead singer in Santanu’s musical band “Melody”. Ruma and Santanu got married on 26th January 1995. Four years later, Ruma became pregnant and in the first month of pregnancy, during…
Lessons: In Life, In Death by Aneka She grew up in an ordinary middle-class family. She was sent to school with her elder brothers, in contravention of the times, largely thanks to her forward-thinking mother. She wanted to become a schoolteacher like her mother. Post-marriage she had to move to a metropolitan city in another…
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2020 “My Care, My Comfort” Based on the theme of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2020, Palliative Care: it’s “My Care, My Comfort”, Dr. Lulu Mathews shares a story with our readers. Dr. Lulu MathewsProgram Director, Academics,Institute of Palliative Medicine,Kozhikode, Kerala.Email: lulumathews@gmail.com Palliative Care, Chacko’s Comfort Can I…
Mother’s lap! Is that the abode of solace for her dying baby? Author: Dr Lulu MathewsProgram Director, Academics, Institute of Palliative Medicine(WHOCC for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long-term Care), Kozhikode, Kerala. Where would you like to die? In whose arms? This question when posed to an adult, you are unlikely to get a…
“‘The nursing aides can wheel his stretcher(he is too tired to sit in the wheelchair now)out to the garden,where he can see the sunsets,smell the flowers and mango blooms,and hear the birds singing their hearts out.His grandchild can run-up to his room with his school bag after each exam,and sit with him on the hospital…
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