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Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (lecture)

Leffert Lecture, December 2014, Massachusetts General Hospital, presented by Dr Diane Meir, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care and Medicine...

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Bill C-277: Framework on Palliative Care in Canada Act

This enactment provides for the development of a framework designed to support improved access for Canadians to palliative care.

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Dame Cicely Saunders

Videotaped interview of Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement who revolutionised palliative care and helped people to die...

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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study...

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Palliative Care as a Human Right (Public Health Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet by the Open Society Public Health Program discusses the recognition of palliative care under international human rights...

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Palliative Care and Human Rights for Older Persons (Public Health Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet examines the growing need for older persons’ palliative care, the distinct and specific palliative care and end-of-life...

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Palliative Care Guide for the Deaf Community

A series of 6 videos which provided information (verbal and ASL) related to palliative care from time of diagnosis until death.

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The Council on Palliative Care (Quebec)

Website with downloadable resources, videos, lists of suggested books, readings, and Quebec programs and services (listed under Resources). Also available in...

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Early Palliative Care - Improving Quality of Life

4 minute video clip explains the value of palliative care within cancer care. In Canada there is not a difference between the words 'hospice' and 'palliative'...

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Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians – Response to “The Making of a Myth: Unreliable Data on Access to Palliative Care in Canada"

In response to the article by Jocelyn Downie that was being circulated last fall (“The Making of a Myth: Unreliable...

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