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December 3, 2024

Empowering People in Canada: New Tools and Resources for Advance Care Planning

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October 29, 2024
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October 8, 2024
Essential exposure: The case for mandatory palliative care clinical rotations
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September 3, 2024
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July 23, 2024
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June 4, 2024
“I’m somebody that nobody thought I could be.”
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May 21, 2024
Largest ever Canadian grief survey results released: Canadians aren’t getting the support they need
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May 14, 2024
Can virtual reality help ease the end of life?
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April 12, 2024
Caregiver Day: Canadian organizations need to better support carer-employees in the workplace
Launch of first Canadian Clinical Guidelines on Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults (CNW Group/Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health)
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March 6, 2024
First Clinical Guidelines Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
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February 27, 2024
Palliative Care in the News: February 2024
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February 13, 2024
Growing the Circle of Care: Implementing Nav-CARE at Bruce Peninsula Hospice
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January 23, 2024
Palliative Care in the News: January 2024
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September 26, 2023
Charting a Palliative Revolution: A Pre-Conference Chat with Drs. Hsien Seow and Sammy Winemaker
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May 9, 2023
Access to Palliative Care: A Little-known Right in Quebec
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January 10, 2023
The Platinum Rule: A New Standard for Person-Centered Care
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December 13, 2022
Palliative Care in the News: December
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October 25, 2022
Reflection Room: Exploring pandemic-related grief in long-term care homes
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October 18, 2022
2022 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Special Lecture: “Healing Hearts & Communities”
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September 27, 2022
Ontario doctors offer immediate solutions to health care crisis
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August 2, 2022
Scaling-out Nav-CARE – a palliative compassionate community innovation
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June 14, 2022
Extending Palliative Approaches to Care Beyond the Mainstream Health Care System
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June 7, 2022
New University of Victoria Canada Research Chair wants death to be better experience
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January 18, 2022
Supporting family caregivers of people living with dementia
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October 6, 2021
National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day: Supporting Caregivers through Nav-CARE 
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September 7, 2021
Let’s ask the right questions about medical aid in dying
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May 5, 2021
Shining a Light on Nav-CARE Volunteers
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April 26, 2021
Experiences with the health care system: Interviews with Caregivers about Palliative Care in Canada
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December 9, 2020
2020 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Special Lecture: “My Care – My Comfort”
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October 7, 2020
A Declaration of Family Caregiver Rights and Responsibilities Affirms the Role of Family Caregivers as an Essential Component of Care
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August 26, 2020
Perceptions of Caregivers Offer Insights into How to Improve End-of-life Care
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June 11, 2020
The Carer-Inclusive and Accommodating Organizations Workplace Standard
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March 13, 2020
Registration is Now Open for The 2020 CHPCA’s Learning Institute
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March 12, 2020
The Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada (QELCCC) Releases The Blueprint for Action 2020-2025
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June 25, 2019
Red Rock Indian Band PhD student awarded prestigious scholarship
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April 11, 2019
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November 26, 2018
Dying in Long-Term Care: Perspectives from Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults about Their Fears and Hopes for End of Life
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May 11, 2018
Doctors Nova Scotia makes recommendations on palliative care
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November 28, 2017
The Impact of Illness Trajectory Pamphlets
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August 9, 2017
Palliative care as a public health issue: understanding disparities in access to palliative care for the homeless population living in Toronto, based on a policy analysis
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July 12, 2016
‘Close to’ a palliative approach: nurses’ and care aides’ descriptions of caring for people with advancing chronic life-limiting conditions
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April 5, 2016
Study: Senior care: Differences by type of housing, 2012
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March 7, 2016
The wish to die among palliative home care clients in Ontario, Canada: A cross-sectional study
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February 3, 2016
Translational Scholarship and a Palliative Approach: Enlisting the Knowledge-As-Action Framework
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February 3, 2016
(Re)theorizing Integrated Knowledge Translation: A Heuristic for Knowledge-As-Action
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January 27, 2016
Conceptual foundations of a palliative approach: a knowledge synthesis
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July 16, 2015
Injustice is bad for your health
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June 18, 2015
Canadian Researcher Creates Scoring System for End-of-Life Care
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June 16, 2015
Call for large-scale, transformative research projects
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June 11, 2015
New study at the Bruyère Research Institute aims to improve quality of life for advanced cancer patients
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June 4, 2015
Improving the Quality of Life at the End of Life
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August 25, 2014
Receiving care at home, a study
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July 16, 2014
Failure to Engage Hospitalized Elderly Patients and Their Families in Advanced Care Planning
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May 15, 2014
Improved outcomes for elderly patients who received care on a transitional care unit
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April 15, 2014
Decision-making about complementary and alternative medicine by cancer patients: integrative literature review
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March 24, 2014
Prevalence and risk factors of depressive symptoms in a Canadian palliative home care population
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February 28, 2014
Another Trial of Outpatient Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer
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February 4, 2014
Specialty status granted to palliative care MDs, may aid recruiting
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November 12, 2013
New Research Funding Opportunities through TVN
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November 12, 2013
Tenure track clinician scientist in palliative care
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November 12, 2013
Significant numbers of sick children suffer and die without access to palliative care
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October 31, 2013
Large Majority of Canadians Open to Discussing End-of-Life Care
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October 9, 2013
CIHI report confirms what RNAO already knows: Ontario needs more RNs to meet patient demand
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October 8, 2013
People with dementia need better pain management
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October 7, 2013
Living Longer, Living Better: Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging Strategic Plan
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October 7, 2013
A qualitative study examining the sustainability of shared care in the delivery of palliative care services in the community
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October 7, 2013
What do Canadians think of advanced care planning? Findings from an online opinion poll
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September 18, 2013
Caring for Everybody – A Celebration of Health Research Partnerships between Canada’s Academic Healthcare Organizations and Health Charities
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September 16, 2013
Study: Caregivers in Canada, 2012
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September 5, 2013
Simple Moments with Grandkids Play Vital Role in Enhancing Grandparents’ Lives
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August 28, 2013
Canadian Study on Extremely Premature Children
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August 19, 2013
Canada needs seniors’ health care strategy: CMA report card
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August 1, 2013
One question may help provide dignity at the end of life: study
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July 19, 2013
Need for Palliative Care Performance Indicators in Ontario Hospitals
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July 16, 2013
The Effectiveness of Palliative Care Expert-Consult Teams: A pooled analysis
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July 12, 2013
Overall Benefits of Pharmaceuticals Outweigh Costs
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July 8, 2013
A review of the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program from 2008 to 2012
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July 8, 2013
Report on experiences of metastatic breast cancer patients and caregivers in Canada
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July 3, 2013
Development of Advance Care Planning Research Priorities: A call to action
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June 26, 2013
KPMG Survey Report: An Uncertain Age
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June 25, 2013
Recognizing Poverty’s Impact on Health
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May 29, 2013
Three Reasons to Register Now for the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference
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May 16, 2013
Report on Ontario’s Cancer System Highlights Need for Better Integration for Patient Care
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May 1, 2013
End-of-life Hospice Care for Cancer Patients
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April 30, 2013
Predictors of Home Care Expenditures and Death at Home for Cancer Patients in an Integrated Comprehensive Palliative Home Care Pilot Program
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April 9, 2013
Pediatric Palliative Care in Canada and the United States: A Qualitative Metasummary of the Needs of Patients and Families
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April 2, 2013
Just Ask!
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March 13, 2013
Moral Distress in the Care of People with Dementia in Residential Care Settings
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February 1, 2013
Bereavement Study Invitation
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November 19, 2012
Improving Palliative Care: A multidisciplinary approach
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November 15, 2012
A Caregivers Guide is Being Updated
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October 25, 2012
The ACCEPT Study: Improving health care outcomes and patient care at the end of life
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October 18, 2012
Exploring Religion in Life and in Death
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October 18, 2012
Covenant Health launches Palliative End of Life Care Institute
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October 10, 2012
Improve home care resources, say UK’s palliative care experts
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September 27, 2012
Comparative health care use patterns of people with schizophrenia near the end of life: A population-based study in Manitoba, Canada
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September 27, 2012
The Way Forward: Moving Towards Community-Integrated Hospice Palliative Care: Discussion Documents
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September 27, 2012
Who Will Care: The Pan-Canadian Study of Palliative Care Providers
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