Tag: End of Life Care
Putting patients at the heart of end-of-life care
New patient resources and clinical practice tools around end-of-life planning and care are helping empower heart failure patients in BC.
The first of their kind...
Music care at end of life brings many benefits
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Sounds of music may be most profound at the end of...
Creating Comfort When There is No Cure
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It takes...
Refusal of pain medication
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#Pain management is a vitally important part of good health...
Keeping you in control of your health-care choices Mississauga Halton CCAC...
You have control over your health care choices. Why should that change at the end of your life? While 75 per cent of Canadians...
Supporting palliative care patients with a team approach
St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto is not designated as a palliative care facility, but we provide quality treatment and compassionate support for palliative patients...
Finding peace in troubling times
Lise Johnson lies comfortably in her hospital bed, gazing toward the big, bright window in her room.
“I feel such a feeling of peace,” she...
A special kind of lasting care
In a hospital that often operates beyond its bed capacity, there’s one bed, in a big, bright, beautiful room that’s reserved for a very...
Making moments matter: End of life care
Wendy’s 42nd birthday fell on a bright, warm Monday. That September afternoon, Wendy Almeida breathed her last breath, succumbing to her long battle with...
New tool provides customized reports to support end of life care...
A Kingston physician and researcher has created a new online tool to help facilitate and improve communications between patients, caregivers and health-care professionals at...
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