Brian Nyatanga

Sharing experiences of death and end-of-life care

Understanding emotional pain in palliative care

To understand emotional pain is to appreciate the sum total of the emotions experienced by the patient's relations, as well as the complexity of these emotions. Emotions are intertwined and can...

Enhancing spiritual harmony in palliative care

Strengthening palliative care in today's challenges

Impact of COVID-19 on loss and grief: a personal lens

COVID-19 pandemic: changing the way we live and die

Social prescribing: combating loneliness is everyone's business

The profile of place of death

Death rituals in modern society

Death and dying in the community in 2020: what's different?

Caring for dying patients presents a range of challenges, from symptom control or management and effective communication to managing the patient's psychological concerns, which are, in themselves,...

‘Put life into their days, and not days into their life’

The many challenges of living with prostate cancer

Death as the final phase of development

Caring as a source of death anxiety in palliative care

Ideally, society at large needs to shift its view of death and accept it as natural part of life, with children becoming involved with dying and the funeral rituals of close relations. This shift...

Supporting the bereaved in palliative care

Providing support for the bereaved can include some of the following:.