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Title:Support for the Dying and Bereaved in Zimbabwe: Traditional and New Approaches
Author:Swift, Patricia
Year:1989
Periodical:Journal of Social Development in Africa (ISSN 1012-1080)
Volume:4
Issue:1
Pages:25-45
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:Shona
associations
social welfare
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Health and Nutrition
Abstract:In Zimbabwe, traditional support systems function side by side with newer voluntary organizations providing services for the dying and bereaved, mainly within the white community but also, increasingly, to those black Zimbabweans in a state of transition between rural and urban life. Both traditional Shona and professional organizational support systems are analysed, with particular emphasis on the 'holistic' approach being practised by two voluntary organizations in Zimbabwe, the Island Hospice Service and the Cancer Association. Holistic care manifests several new features, which distinguish it from that provided in more orthodox Western medical settings and which actually converge with traditional African approaches. A brief review of problems being experienced by bereaved and dying people receiving assistance reveals that in the changing social conditions in present-day Zimbabwe there is potential for useful cross-cultural fertilization in approaches to the care of those experiencing loss, and some suggestions are made to this end. Bibliogr.
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