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Respite, Hospice and Palliative Care

Programs providing a range of support services to terminally ill patients and their families. Includes respite programs and information about medically assisted death.

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Provides online information about advance care planning, including:
  • How to share your health and personal care preferences with health care teams and your family if you become incapable of expressing your own decisions, for example, health care treatment and who can make decisions for you
  • An online interactive workbook to help with the advance care planning process and writing a health care directive
  • An advance care planning wallet card
  • Health care directives form
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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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Provides support to those navigating end-of-life choice and care. Includes:

  • Providing independent witnesses and/or proxies to MAID requestors through the Independent Witness Program
  • Provides free virtual workshops or presentations on Advance Care Planning (ACP)
  • Provides free virtual workshops or presentations on Medical assistance in dying (MAID)
  • Advocacy for end-of-life care and choice

Note: They do not provide information or means to end a life, and do not offer MAID assessments or provisions.

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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 monthly in-person peer support group for unpaid caregivers who are caring for someone who has a chronic life-limiting illness.
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Volunteers visit wherever the client resides and will help out in ways to improve quality of life, as determined by the client. This can include:
  • Helping with light chores or meal preparation
  • A few hours respite for caregivers
  • General company, listening and talking with the client
  • Taking the client on outings
  • Reading
  • Meditation
  • Music care
  • Therapeutic touch
  • Transportation to appointments
  • Resources
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Trained volunteers visit with individuals and families who are going through an end-of-life experience, or those who are recently bereaved.

Volunteers will visit clients at home, in hospital or in a care home.
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