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Canadian Virtual Hospice

AKA: Portail Palliatif Canadien
Provides online information and support about advanced illness, palliative care, and grief to patients, caregivers, family members, healthcare providers, and educators.
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Healthcare experts provide confidential answers to questions posed online about life-limiting illness, palliative care, loss, and grief. Professionals include physicians, nurses, social workers, pediatric specialists, spiritual care advisors, a grief specialist, a children's grief specialist, a pharmacist, and an Indigenous Elder.

The service is not meant to be a substitute for direct medical advice and/or care and the team cannot provide advice regarding diagnosis or medical treatment.

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Provides free online learning modules that help caregivers prepare and provide care as illness advances. Topics include:

  • Strategies for difficult conversations
  • Video demonstrations of caregiving tasks
  • Guidance for recognizing and managing symptoms
  • Suggestions for accessing programs and services
  • Ways to care for yourself

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Provides a free online resource platform to educate, support, and empower parents caring for a seriously ill child and those who are experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. Chapters include:

  • Child
  • Family
  • Healthcare Team
  • School and community
  • Care and the end of life
  • Grief and Bereavement

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Online communities of people talking and sharing about living with a life-limiting illness, caring, loss and grief.

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Online information in text and video format about managing advanced illness, including:
  • Symptoms
  • Emotional and spiritual concerns
  • Financial programs
  • Decision-making
  • Caregiving
  • Talking about illness and grief
  • Tools for professionals
  • Final days
  • 2SLGBTQ+
  • COVID-19 and palliative care

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Provides a free online resource to help parents and other adults support and talk to children about serious illness, dying, and the death of someone they know.


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Video series of people from 11 cultures sharing their experiences about advanced illness, end-of-life and grief. Topics include:
  • Traditions, rituals and spirituality
  • Expectations of care
  • Care for the patient and family
  • Emotions and support
  • Talking about illness
  • After death and ceremonies

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Online forum where young adults and teens living with advanced illness share insights and tackle difficult topics with honesty and humour. Includes topics such as:
  • Relationships
  • Sex and fertility
  • Daily life
  • Decisions
  • Self

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Free Online learning modules that help individuals understand and work through their grief.


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Online resources to help young individuals living with death of someone important to go through their grief.


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