Palliative care is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.
Palliative care is a specialized approach to care for people and families living with a life-limiting illness. Often their illness is at an advanced stage.
Learn about palliative care, who is covered by palliative care and the procedure for receiving palliative care
What is Palliative and End-of-Life Care? Learn about this type of care, who it's for, and if it's right for you.
Healthcare delivery in community health centres across Nunavut reflects their history as isolated nursing stations, each very much shaped by local history and the nurses who have worked there, largely independently.
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness – whatever the diagnosis. Care can be provided wherever the client is living, whether at home, in hospice, an assisted living residence or a long-term care home.
Palliative or end-of-life care is an approach to care that improves the quality of living and dying for the patient and their families.
Ontario is working to provide patients with more choices for palliative and end-of-life care.
Hospice palliative care provides medical services, emotional support, and spiritual resources for people who have illnesses that do not go away and often get worse over time and for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure.
The framework for a provincial palliative care strategy will help enable progress in the care New Brunswickers receive. The framework outlines strategic directions and is intended to guide regional health authorities, health-care providers and community organizations in planning integrated palliative and end-of-life care services
Current best practice is for providing a palliative approach to care beginning earlier within person’s journey with an illness. This approach better meets the individual’s health care needs and also supports family and community caregivers throughout the illness, not just at the end of life.
Palliative care can provide comfort for people, yet too few Canadians truly understand what it involves.
If you have a progressive life limiting illness, the Provincial Integrated Palliative Care Program may be able to help you and your family through this difficult time.
Palliative care is a holistic approach that treats a person with serious illness of any age, and in any setting.
Palliative care is important, but often misunderstood. This infographic explores the full spectrum of palliative care.
Do you know the differences between palliative and hospice care?
End-of-life situations can be difficult. Despite quality care and support given to patients at the end of life, in a minority of cases, palliative care may not be sufficient to relieve suffering in a satisfactory manner.
The Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) requires all regulated health professionals to obtain informed consent from the person, or if they are incapable, from their substitute decision-maker, prior to treatment, unless it is an emergency.
At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it's simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. (TED Talk)
The research agenda was made possible by the generous support of National and International grant funding, obtained and directed by Dr. Lynn McDonald, NICE Scientific Director, and the dedicated members of the NICE research community.
Caring for yourself is one of the most important things you can do as a caregiver. But often, caregivers prioritize the needs of others over their own.
In addition to managing the challenges of caring for a person with a chronic disease such as dementia, caregivers need to attend to their health needs so as to prevent the onset of disease and increase overall quality of life.
The Canadian Dental Care Plan will help ease financial barriers accessing oral health care for eligible Canadian seniors who do not have access to dental insurance.
Seniors and Long-Term Care is a department within the Government of Manitoba.
Canadian Government landing page for Canada Dental Care Plan. Eligibility,coverage and online application forms.
The Canadian Dental Care Plan is administered by Sun Life on behalf of the Government of Canada.
Long-term care homes in Canada: How many and who owns them? The infographic includes information on homes where health care is either entirely or partially funded by the provincial or territorial government.
Find out if you are eligible for a tax credit to help low- to moderate-income seniors with eligible medical expenses, including expenses that support aging at home.
