Information and support
when it matters most.
Explore our impact reports and useful links that are here to inform, guide, and support patients and their caregivers and families on the palliative care journey.
Helpful Links
- What is palliative care?
- Stories: Patients share their stories with palliative care
- Atlas of Palliative Care in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Caring Connections provides people with information and support when they are planning ahead, caring for a loved one, living with an illness or grieving a loss.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) presents important information about cancer, its prevention, detection, and treatment in addition to palliative care.
- The American Cancer Society serves as a resource for patients and their caregivers as well as their healthcare providers to know more about several matters related to cancer and its management.
- Palliative Care Network provides a platform for Palliative Care Professionals to teach, interact, and exchange ideas with fellow colleagues in places around the world where the knowledge gap is wider than the technology gap.
- Film Guides for Carers: This series of films was produced by Marie Curie Cancer Care to give practical instructions to people caring for someone who is weak and bedridden. Short films on bathing a loved one in bed, moving them in bed and helping them get comfortable provide helpful advice that is easy to follow. (From Marie Curie Cancer Care)
- Managing Symptoms: This website offers information on managing symptoms that are commonly seen in the last few weeks or months of life such as pain, loss of appetite and confusion. (From Cancer Help UK)
- ASCO palliative care resource stratified guideline: Dr. Osman served as co-chair of the expert panel that developed this guideline at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The guideline provides recommendations for implementation of palliative care across a variety of settings taking into account the resource constraints of different countries.
- K2P Policy Brief This policy brief is the outcome of the stakeholder meeting organized by Balsam in collaboration with K2P and the Ministry of Public Health.