CanadaImproving access to palliative care for Canadians requires a focused collective effort towards palliative and end-of-life care advocacy and policy. However, evolution of modern palliative care in Canada has resulted in stakeholders working in isolation. Identification of stakeholders is an important...
Societal costs of home and hospital end-of-life care for palliative care patients in Ontario, Canada In Canada, health system restructuring has led to a greater focus on home-based palliative care as an alternative to institutionalised palliative care. How... M Yu,DN Guerriere,PC Coyte - ...
This chapter will explore the family experiences when a child is diagnosed with and in treatment for a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, the main tenets of pediatric hospice palliative care, and the nursing practice in Canadian pediatric hospice palliative care. The chapter will conclude ...
Significant gaps in the evidence base on costs in rural communities in Canada and elsewhere are reported in the literature, particularly regarding costs to families. However, it remains unclear whether the costs related to all resources used by palliative care patients in rural areas differ to those...
Canadapalliative careassisted dyingempirical dataAssisted death is now the subject of conversation in the media, in public meetings, and around kitchen tables across the country. A frequent part of many conveDownie, JocelynLloydSmith, Georgia
Unlike in other nations, in Canada palliative care has its origins in university hospitals. It has subsequently developed in a few Canadian schools as an academic discipline closely linked with oncology programs. Although this model is successful, other faculties of medicine and cancer centres have ...
R. (2013). « Breaking down barriers: Hospice palliative care as a human right in Canada », Educational Gerontology, 39(4) : 241-249.Freeman S, Heckman G, Naus PJ, Marston HR: Breaking down barriers: Hospice palliative care as a human right in Canada. Educ Gerontol 2013, 39 (4)...
In Canada, health system restructuring has led to a greater focus on home-based palliative care as an alternative to institutionalised palliative care. However, little is known about the effect of this change on end-of-life care costs and the extent to which the financial burden of care has...
Palliative care could benefit 89% of those who die in Canada. However, less than 6 in 10 Canadians who died in 2021-2022 received care from the discipline that specializes, in part, in caring for the dying.
Using an advance directed makes certain that your health care and end-of-life needs are both known, respected, and to be followed to the letter. An advance directive should very clearly state what you want to have happen in the event that you’re unable to make your own decisions. ...