This list of online, national, provincial and territorial resources was developed for National Hospice Palliative Care Week 2024. Note: These resources include links to external websites. We do our best to make sure these links are accurate and up to date. However, CHPCA is not responsible for any of the content hosted on external websites […]
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Based on a review of CHPCA’s Directory of Services in Spring 2022, CHPCA identified and provided updated information and dedicated in-patient hospice palliative care (HPC) bed counts in hospice residence programs to provide a current count of the number of those programs and beds available in Canada. In total, including other in-patient, outpatient, or other […]
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PDF: English | French Preamble In June 2016, the Federal Government enacted Bill C-14 legalizing assisted death under certain circumstances and adopted the term ‘medical assistance in dying’. As implemented in Bill C-14 (2018) medical assistance in dying includes both euthanasia (“the administering by a physician or nurse practitioner of a substance to a person, […]
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In honour of National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day 2022, and thanks to the support of GSK Inc. and Purdue Pharma (Canada), CHPCA and the CNPCC compiled a repository of resources on pediatric hospice palliative care for families and for health care workers. The resources touch on topics like what pediatric palliative care entails, anticipatory […]
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Submitted to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying on May 24, 2022 By Laurel Gillespie, CEO of Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association and Leah Salvage, Executive Director, Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians Introduction Palliative care provides medical assistance in living every day to patients and their families, to help them live […]
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This position statement has been revised as of June 8, 2023. the updated version can be found here In June 2016, the Federal Government enacted Bill C-14 legalizing assisted death under certain circumstances and adopted the term ‘medical assistance in dying’. As implemented in Bill C-14 (2018) medical assistance in dying includes both euthanasia (“the […]
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Grief and Bereavement Resource Repository This repository of grief and bereavement resources is a collection of useful links and resources to help you and your loved ones cope with grief. Please note this page will be updated on regular basis with new and other suggested resources. If you would like to add other resources to […]
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Amid the pandemic crisis, essential front-line workers such as doctors and health care workers, staff in long term care facilities, supermarket and pharmacy staff, cleaners and delivery drivers, funeral d rectors and other essential services are stepping up to help their fellow Canadians. They do so even while exposing themselves to the risk of infection and the […]
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Love Your Life to Death has partnered with Canadian Hospice Palliative Care and Advanced Care Planning to provide resources, support and education to everyone across Canada. With every purchase Love Your Life to Death is making a donation to support CHPCA. Yvonne Heath brings heart and humour to grief, death and dying, so professionals in […]
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