The Palliative Care Society of Trinidad and Tobago

30/08/2025

Yes, the stages can vacillate.

29/08/2025

This 💯

23/08/2025

🙏🏽 for your beautiful pictures, words and truth.

19/08/2025

19/08/2025

02/08/2025

27/07/2025

Many are focused on cure and “winning a war” against serious illness. ( I dislike using war analogies when it comes to disease processes .)

Dying is a part of life and learning to prepare for death is important .
Preparing for death often includes shifting goals towards comfort and quality of life especially if the disease process cannot be fixed.

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26/07/2025

A will is probably one of the main things you think about when you start planning for the final stages of life...but there is so much more to it than paperwork. How we talk about and deal with death and grief isn't something we always face and there are concerted efforts in Australia to change that....

23/06/2025

Today would've marked the the birthday of our founder Dame Cicely Saunders.

Dame Cicely is recognised as the founder of the modern hospice movement and we’re proud to play a part in creating that story.

“You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life”💙

21/06/2025

25/05/2025

Umbrella 🌂 ☂️☔️

“Palliative care is the umbrella, not the rain,” Dr. Camilla Zimmermann says of the comic strip. “Like the umbrella, palliative care is good to have just in case, and you can bring it out when you need it.”

The metaphor of an umbrella protecting the patient from the rain of symptoms and problems faced in advanced cancer is used to demonstrate the purpose – and benefit – of early palliative care. The umbrella works best if it is provided before the rain starts – otherwise the patient will get drenched.

To bring the comic strip to life, Dr. Zimmermann partnered with Dr. Jean Mathews to share writing and storyboard duties. They then worked with an illustrator to render the images which were published in March 2022 in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Oncology.

At CanSupport, we also hope to help patients and their caregivers better understand the meaning and purpose of palliative care as we provide the services to ease the suffering.

Read the original article at: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2790371

16/03/2025

He never stopped caring, and never stopped trying to help ❤️