Home care typically involves health-related services that are delivered to you in your home and are ordered by your physician to help your recovery. Private care is a type of home care. If you need home care that extends beyond services covered by insurance, Private Care services provide day-to-day support to help you continue to live safely and in

A hospice was opened in 1980 in Harare (Salisbury, at the time), Zimbabwe, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa. In spite of skepticism in the community, the hospice movement spread, and in 1987 the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa formed. In 1990, Nairobi Hospice opened in Nairobi, Kenya. As of 2006, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda we

Since 2006, the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is organized by a committee of the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, a network of hospice and palliative care national and regional organizations that support the development of hospice and palliative care worldwide. The event takes place on the second Saturday of October every year.