Grief & Bereavement Support Project

GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT PROJECT

Integrating grief and bereavement services in palliative care to improve outcomes for bereaved caregivers.

Training in Kyesiiga
Peers Training in Kyesiiga

There is high burden of grief and bereavement in sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda. This is coupled with a weak healthcare system characterized by absence interventions to improve grief and bereavement outcomes. Grief and bereavement is largely attributable to HIV/TB, cancer, and other non-communicable diseases.

As a result, Kitovu Mobile with support from The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) and Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) trained community lay members to provide peer bereavement support, addressing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of bereaved family caregivers to improve end-of-life care and reduce suffering.

Enhance quality results for grief and bereavement care at Kitovu Mobile hospice in Buddu region.

Masaka, Lwengo and Kyotera districts.

Project has improved the overall grief and bereavement outcomes for bereaved family caregivers and yielded a quality palliative care community-led model of delivering G&B services through;

  • Developing a facility team of grief and bereavement support people within palliative care services to stimulate service development.
  • Identifying, forming and supporting a Community Advisory Board (CAB).
  • Developing a core team of community grief and bereavement support people within palliative care services to stimulate service development.
  • Identification of families at risk of complicated grief
  • Training Village Health Teams (VHTs) on project data collection tools to supported documentation of palliative care services to stimulate service development.
  • Preforming Household Assessment for Grief in Target Communities.
  • Offering grief and bereavement and social support to affected caregivers in Target Communities.
  • Community awareness and advocacy sessions for grief and bereavement.
  • Measuring outcomes for Grief and Bereavement survives in Target Communities