NEWS & ARTICLES FROM LIFE & DEATH MATTERS
The Hospice Association of Ontario and the Ontario Palliative Care Association have merged to form Hospice Palliative Care Ontario! The annual conference provided the opportunity
Senator Carstairs is a legend! She has advocated tirelessly for HPC in Canada for years. She spoke at the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario conference yesterday.
Preparedness takes on new meanings depending, among other things, on our daily lives, family circumstances, and global issues… During my childrearing years, an apparently simple
If you are a Funeral Director (FD) in Ontario, you are required to attend two days of Continuing Education every five years to maintain your
Hi all, The annual BCHPCA conference is May 12th and 13th adjacent to the Vancouver airport. (Fly in and take a free shuttle to the
As we look to Japan many of us wonder how we can help. I wonder if we might better ask what we can learn from this dignified and resilient people?
A place of silence,a place to hold the sorrow and tragedy of the earthquakes/tsunami in Japan,a place to consider the many who suffer. It is
Dementia Care: “Knowing our life and emotional history is for others the key to unlocking who we are, why we feel the way we do
Louis Armstrongs singing “What a wonderful world” is truly one of my “favorite things”.Attending a conference and hearing about good tools, validated by good research,
In June of 2006 Fiona Sudbury the Director of Care at Broadmead Lodge in Victoria asked me to help them prepare a course on “Dying
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