The GIPPEC Symposium, titled "Palliative Care for All: Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Muslims held in January this year, explored the palliative care needs of Muslim patients and families, identified barriers to quality palliative care in Canada, and examine how Canadian clinicians can incorporate the needs of Muslim patients in their practice. Watch the symposium sessions here. A symposium report will be out soon.
Dr. Gary Rodin speaks with ecancer at ASCO 2017 about a psychological intervention to help advanced cancer patients manage disease-related anxiety.
As part of our series to look at the stigma of palliative care in Africa, we interviewed Eunice Garanganga, Director of Hospice & Palliative Care Assocation of Zimbabwe (HOSPAZ).
GIPPEC: Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your current work in palliative care.
Garanganga: I am a palliative care practitioner working at the National Palliative Care Association in Zimbabwe. I have vast experience in palliative...
As part of our series to look at the stigma of palliative care in Africa, we interviewed Eve Namisango, PhD Fellow at Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London and Research and Development Manager, African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
Research and Development Manager, African Palliative Care Association Uganda
GIPPEC: What inspired you to work in palliative care?
Namisango: My professional background is palliative care policy and rehabilitation and I also have a very strong passion...
As part of our series to look at the stigma of palliative care in Africa, we interviewed Dr. Brigid Sirengo, the Director of Education (ED) at Nairobi Hospice, retired in January 2017 after serving as the institution’s Chief Executive Officer for 23 years.
GIPPEC: What inspired you to work in palliative care?
Dr. Sirengo: Many years ago I undertook a course in counseling psychology. One of the modules on...
Last year, Camilla Zimmermann, Head of Palliative Care at University Health Network, published a paper on the stigma of palliative care, identifying perceptions commonly associated with palliative care, including death, hopelessness and dependency. These perceptions work against early integration of palliative care resulting in patients not accessing this holistic care despite its well-established benefits on quality of life.
This summer, we spoke with experts across Africa (including Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda) about the stigma of...
Chloe Shaw, GIPPEC fellow presented at her research, a conversation analytic study of CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully) therapy sessions, on a panel, Talking about Death, at the International Pragmatics Association Conference in Belfast. Using the method of conversation analysis, the research identifies subtle ways in which therapists invite a patient to consider an alternative perspective concerning particularly delicate matters, whilst managing the dilemma of invalidating the patient’s perspective.
As part of our series to look at the stigma of palliative care in Africa, we interviewed Dr. Esther Munyoro, the head of the Pain and Palliative Care Unit in in Kenya National Referral Hospital (aka Kenyatta National Hospital)
GIPPEC: What inspired you to work in palliative care?
Dr. Munyoro: I was inspired to start the unit after suffering a lot as I tried to navigate my father through treatment of cancer of the oesophagus. I had...
“I see no reason for my doctor to love me – nor would I expect him to suffer with me. I wouldn't demand a lot of my doctor’s time: I just wish he would brood on my situation for perhaps five minutes, that he would give me his whole mind just once, be bonded with me for brief space, survey my soul as well as my flesh, to get at my illness, for each man is ill in his...
As part of our series to look at the stigma of palliative care in Africa, we interviewed Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, a public health expert and senior manager of complex public health programs in Africa. Dr. Mwangi Powell has more than 18 years of experience in leading, managing, implementing health programs. She worked as the founding Executive Director of the African Palliative Care Association, supporting palliative care global advocacy and services development in over 20 African countries. Currently, Dr. Mwangi-Powell is...