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Report: Number of Hospice Beds in Hospice Residences in Canada, Spring 2022

Category:Hospice and Palliative Care, Hospice Palliative Care Resources

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 […]

Position Statement on Hospice Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

Category:Hospice and Palliative Care, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

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, […]

Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Resource Repository

Category:Caregivers, Hospice and Palliative Care, Hospice Palliative Care Resources

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 […]

CHPCA-CSPCP joint submission to Special Joint parliamentary committee on expanding MAiD

Category:Hospice and Palliative Care, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

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 […]

ARCHIVED: Position Statement on Hospice Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

Category:Hospice and Palliative Care, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

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 […]

Grief and Bereavement Resource Repository

Category:Bereavement Day, Hospice Palliative Care Resources

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 […]

Caregivers in Challenging Times A booklet by Arbor Memorial

Category:Caregivers, Compassionate Communities, COVID-19, Hospice Palliative Care Resources

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 […]