The quality of death — Ranking end-of-life care across the world
Today is International Hospice Palliative Care Day. A fascinating report published in 2010 ranked 40 countries on how they provide end-of-life care. Nations were scored in four categories including the end of life health care environment, available of end of life care, cost of the care and quality of the experience. Canada ranked 9th overall. […]
The Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care- A Day for Educators
Announcing a BCCCA CONFERENCE 2014 PRE-CONFERENCE workshop: The Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care- A Day for Educators! Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm Location: Terminal City Club, 837 West Hastings Street Instructor: Kath Murray, HPC nurse, educator and author BCCCA Conference Flyer * Connect with current developments and key concepts in Hospice […]
Little Stars: A film about Children’s Palliative Care
We were thrilled to have been contacted by our friend Mike Hill, of Moonshine Movies, recently to let us know about his newest project – Little Stars. In the one-hour Little Stars film they have captured surprisingly life-affirming stories of children around the world (8 countries to date in the USA, South Africa, India, Australia, […]
Coming out of hiding!
The last two and a half months I have been retreating… time with siblings from Denmark, Australia and Vancouver, time on the water, time in the water, and a lot of time writing! The new text, “Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers” is just about to go to the press. We are […]
