10/21/2025
This October at Life and Death Matters, we’re shining a spotlight on pediatric palliative care. Care for children and youths with life-limiting conditions that blends clinical excellence with profound compassion. Whether you’re a PSW offering bedside comfort or a nurse coordinating care, your role in supporting these children is vital. What is Pediatric Palliative Care?
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On National Pediatric Hospice Palliative Care Day, we are reminded of the extraordinary journeys that children with life-limiting illness, their families, and their caregivers take together. Pediatric palliative care is about much more than the final days of life. It is about ensuring that children can live as fully and comfortably as possible, surrounded by
Read More09/22/2025
By Krystal Murray Allen “Each time I acknowledge the traditional lands upon which I live, or put on my orange T-shirt, I think of my family, and our collective gratitude for our First Nation neighbours, including, The Ellsworth family, who love/loved our youngest son and cared for him in life and in death. When Geordie, was 30
Read More09/19/2025
Each September, World Alzheimer’s Month invites us to reflect on the realities of dementia. It’s a time to raise awareness, challenge stigma, and ask how we can better support people through the long, uncertain journey of cognitive decline. For you as Personal Support Workers, and other members of the health care team, this may be
Read More08/21/2025
In palliative care, time can be understood in two ways. Clock time – the hours and minutes measured in schedules and calendars, and temporality – how people experience their time. For those living with serious illnesses, time becomes both fragile and profound. Caregivers and families who walk alongside them may feel this too. As explored
Read More08/13/2025
Frailty is not a disease. When we overlook the ways frailty shapes both longevity and quality of life, Dr. Robert warns, we risk robbing people of the chance to enjoy the time they have. In his view, there is no downside to giving the gift of good time.
Read More08/12/2025
We almost missed this incredible date!!! July 1st – the date almost past without realizing that it had come and gone!!! We have known for years that this will happen – and it has happened. On July 1st, the eldest of the Canadian Baby Boomers started to reach the age of their average life expectancy. For
Read More08/04/2025
By: Marianne Sofronas - Receiving a serious illness diagnosis changes everything. Routines are disrupted, relationships shift, priorities are called into question.
Read More07/31/2025
By Marianne Sofronas - People living with neurologic disease face stigma, discrimination, and health inequities due to changes in function, chronic pain and other symptoms that can be difficult to treat and manage.
Read More07/25/2025
We are writing this blog post as an introduction to the care of people in their last days and hours. Our hope is that as compassionate communities continue to grow around the world, that neighbourhoods, circles of friends, and family will feel stronger and more able to meet the needs of those who are dying.
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