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Promoting Excellence: Huntington's Disease Huntington's Disease Recommendations to the Field: Lifting the Veil of Huntington's Disease Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life...

The Public Health Approach to Palliative Care: Principles, Models, and International Perspectives A White Paper commissioned by the BC Centre for Palliative Care to provide an evidence base for the effectiveness of the...

The Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada Blueprint for Action 2010 to 2020 To continue to improve care at end of life for all Canadians, the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada focuses on...

Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada Declaration The QELCCC works to improve the end-of-life care for all Canadians. Members of the QELCCC are asked to post this declaration...

The Quality of Death: Ranking end-of-life care across the world A white paper report commissioned by the LIEN Foundation and completed by The Economist: Intelligence Unit by interviewing...

Recommendations to Improve Quality and Access to End-of-Life Care in First Nations Communities: Policy Implicationsfrom the “Improving End-of-Life Care in First Nations Communities" Research Project The research team, led by Dr. Mary Lou Kelley, Lakehead University, would like to acknowledge and thank the four First Nations...

Report - Evaluation of the Palliative Care Toolkit The Palliative Care Toolkit: Improving care from the roots up in resource-limited settings; was developed in 2008 with support...

Report on National Forum on First Nations, Inuit and Métis Cancer Control, 2009 The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer hosted a National Forum on First Nations, Inuit and Métis cancer control. The report...

A Resource Guide for Community Development of Palliative and End-of-Life Care within Alberta Communities across Alberta are seeking information about developing local Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PEOLC) community...

A Search for Solutions: A Gathering on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples This document highlights the experience of First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) people around accessing palliative and end...

Program development / Standards and norms

Staffing Model for Palliative Care Programs The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians is proud to announce publication of a paper developed by the CSPCP’s Staffing...

Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot be separated...

Tools to Support Earlier Identification for Palliative Care - Ontario Palliative Care Network The aim of this document is to support providers and system level leadership in earlier identification of patients who would...

The Way Forward National Framework This document is the first step in developing a national framework: a roadmap for implementing an integrated palliative approach...

When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Guidelines for Discharge Planning for First Nations Patients Returning to Home Community for Palliative Care The Palliative Care Program of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has developed " Guidelines for Discharge Planning...

Indigenous people

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