The Palliative Approach
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Advance Care Planning in Canada: Why Your Wishes Don’t Always Travel with You
Across Canada, ACP is recognized as a crucial part of patient-centered care, helping ensure that people receive treatment aligned with their values and goals. Yet, despite the growing awareness of its importance, a critical gap persists: ACP documents often don’t “follow you” across health care systems, hospitals, or even provinces.
Healthcare Trends: One-Directional Care Becomes a Community Conversation
Delivering high-quality palliative care requires more than clinical skill—it demands presence, empathy, and the ability to support families through some of life’s most difficult conversations.
Accelerating Compassion: Enhancing Palliative Care Competency Through Emotional Intelligence Education
Delivering high-quality palliative care requires more than clinical skill—it demands presence, empathy, and the ability to support families through some of life’s most difficult conversations.
When Grief Feels Lonely: The Healing Power of Nature and Community
Embracing Grief: A Weekend Nature Retreat is a four-day retreat held at Northern Edge Algonquin, on Kawawaymog Lake in South River, Ontario.
Ending the Isolation: A Vision for Collaborative Hospice Kitchens
Imagine a network of collaborative hospice kitchens nationwide, sharing recipes, techniques, and solutions.
Designing Interventions that Align with Your Community’s Culture
This article is part of a series following two multi-year projects that bring together social movements to improve quality of life for those facing health challenges.
10 Myths About Palliative Care
Palliative care is still widely misunderstood by many people in Canada. Here are 10 common myths we often encounter.
AI Predicts Cancer Symptoms: Revolutionizing Palliative Care
At its core, AI in palliative care is about making sense of complexity that overwhelms even experienced teams. These systems sift through streams of patient data, vital signs, lab results, clinical notes, patient reported outcomes, and look for patterns humans struggle to catch in real time.
Empathy: The Key to Building Dementia-Inclusive Communities
Across Canada, the six sites involved in the Compassionate Dementia Inclusive Communities (CDIC) project have been hard at work developing interventions and campaigns aimed at reducing stigma, raising awareness, and supporting dementia inclusion.
Reconnecting at the End: The Healing Power of Nature in Hospice and Palliative Care
One of the most profound sources of comfort is nature. The feeling of sunlight warming our skin, the sound of birds outside a window, or that first breath of fresh air. In hospice and palliative care, every moment is important, and these connections to the world around us offer something no medicine or machine can.
