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Palliative Care for All by All
It’s not only the Y generation that knows how to have a good time, and this we found out when the Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) held their fundraising dinner on the 2nd of September 2016 at Laico Regency in Nairobi “We are the world, we are...
We all wish to die well – what can we and the Kampala Declaration do to achieve this goal?
At the recently concluded 5th International African Palliative Care Conference held in Kampala, Uganda, high-level decision makers from African governments, the United Nations, the African Union, the World Health Organization and leading palliative care experts and...
Calm Eternity
An end-of-life care option that provides dying patients and their loved ones with comfort, compassion, and dignity does exist. We call this Palliative Care, helping others live comfortably and in dignity and simply pass in to calm eternity. Being there to help someone...
Breaking Beautifully
Like a butterfly evolving, we must love each stage we pass through. Be not judgmental of yourself because just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it broke beautifully into a butterfly. You are becoming a wondrous butterfly.
Spirituality in palliative care.
Spiritual care is defined as the care which recognizes and responds to the needs of the human spirit when faced with trauma, ill health or sadness and can include the need for meaning, for self worth, to express oneself, for faith support, perhaps for rites or prayer...
What a shoe?
“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”― Shannon L. Alder. Majority of palliative care patients have lost almost everything because of the state of their illness; friends, families, property, fame, dignity and other...