Spiritual assistance is one of the core areas in palliative care that any hospice or palliative care set up should not ignore. It demotivates spiritual leaders when doctors see them as intruders in their quest to help patients in their end of life. Reverend Patrick...
Laikipia Palliative Care Centre started its day-care services this year with an initial attendance of 10 patients out of the possible 22 registered patients. The centre’s patients responded to this step positively. They were pleased with the introduction of such...
Despite the many challenges faced at various levels of its development, there is willingness to develop palliative care and there is a shift to centralize political power at the county level, which holds promise that palliative care can develop from the ground up and...
Call for Abstracts OPEN! Make the world your audience. The International Palliative Care Network Conference – 2013 is an online conference hosted on the Palliative Care Network Community Site. Participation and access to the virtual conference is FREE! ...
Cancer is emerging to be the biggest public health challenge faced today in Kenya as it contributes to 7% of total mortality every year. Annually, an estimate of over 28,500 new cases of cancer are diagnosed while 22,100 people die of the disease each year. Over 60%...
80% of nurses working in rural areas have no idea of palliative care, 80% fear the process of breaking bad news, 55% feel it consumes time, 65% fear burn out after prolonged care while 50% fear prescribing morphine and causing addiction to patients. This is...
