title: Palliative care in India.
abstract: While India has a long tradition of home-based spiritual and religious care of the dying, there has been no contemporary palliative care until relatively recently. The existing and planned palliative care services in India are presented, and future perspectives and the opportunities for training for both professionals and lay volunteers are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chandra
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends; D013727:Terminal Care; D014838:Volunteers / Q000193:education