The goal of the Knowledge Translation of the Compassionate Care Benefit is to increase family caregivers’ knowledge and use of Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit (CCB). The CCB offers workers a temporary, paid leave from employment to support a family member or a friend at the end of life.
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Prior research and current low levels of use of the Benefit overwhelmingly point to the need to mobilize knowledge about the CCB.By engaging front-line health professionals, particularly palliative nurses and physicians, and providing them with relevant, user-friendly tools about the CCB, they can act as ‘information transmitters’ and pass on information about the CCB to their clients and their clients’ families. This will have a potentially large impact on CCB uptake, which will in turn strengthen the health of family caregivers. Preventing morbidity and enhancing the health of family caregivers engaged in palliative/end-of-life (P/EoL) care is a critically important issue due to population aging and increased pressure to provide care in the home.
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We are currently in the final research stages. Tools will be available on the CHPCA marketplace as of April 2012