/palliativecare/articles/rss en /palliativecare/article/jackie-aziz-adolescent-and-young-adult-aya-program-building-bridges <p>The new Jackie Aziz Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) program, established in February 2023, is housed under the adult Supportive and Palliative Care program of the Cedars Cancer Centre (ż´Ć¬ĘÓƵ University Health Centre or MUHC) and targets young cancer patients aged 15 to 39. But different from many hospitals, the MUHC has a pediatric <i>and </i>an adult mission, so adolescents aged 15 to 17 transitioning from the Montreal Children’s Hospital to the MUHC’s adult cancer treatment centre, the Cedars Cancer Center, can also be followed through the AYA program.</p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:17:13 +0000 Cedars CanSupport 1692 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/cultural-representations-death-and-dying <p></p><div class="image-caption-container rt"><img alt="Anna Elsner" height="322" width="261" style="float: right;" class="media-element file-original rt" src="/palliativecare/files/palliativecare/anna_elsner.jpg" /><div class="image-caption">Dr Anna Elsner / Dre Anna Elsner</div></div><em>Dr Anna Elsner’s research focuses on the Medical Humanities, with a particular interest in the representation of death and dying in photography, film, philosophy and literature.</em> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:44:46 +0000 Devon Phillips 1693 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/home-palliative-care-nunavik <p><i>Family doctor Genevieve Auclair has practised “up north” in Nunavik for 16 years, which represents her whole medical career. Her commitment to providing excellent care under circumstances very different from a practice in the “south” is evident from her passion for her work, commitment to the population she serves and ability to constantly adapt to the resources at hand. About 14,000 people inhabit Nunavik which is approximately 444,000 square </i><i>kilometers and is located in both the Artic and subartic zones, north of the 55<sup>th</sup> parallel.</i></p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:34:55 +0000 Devon Phillips 1694 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/kathryn-mannix-unscripted <p><img height="200" width="160" style="float: right;" class="media-element file-default rt" src="/palliativecare/files/palliativecare/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/kathryn_mannix.jpg?itok=uZOBuAqN" alt="" />Dr Kathryn Mannix is a soft-spoken powerhouse whose recent visit to Canada, including a public lecture for the ż´Ć¬ĘÓƵ Council on Palliative Care at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and a plenary presentation at the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) conference, demonstrates how to talk openly about a tough subject and how we as a society can do a muc</p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:04:36 +0000 Devon Phillips 1696 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/supporting-healthy-grieving-dawn-cruchet <p>MCOPC Webinar (with Dawn Cruchet) - Healthy Grieving in the Pandemic. Originally recorded 20 May 2021.</p> <p>Watch on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFp-gDYJLBE&list=PLfMfJihLOASV1A_h1acLOO_R3Ea34dzrS&index=10&t=786s&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Palliative-Care-in-Action-Newsletter-%2315&utm_source=Envoke-Newsletter-subscription&utm_term=Council-on-Palliative-Care-and-Palliative-Care-ż´Ć¬ĘÓƵ-Newsle">YouTube here</a>.</p> <p> </p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:15:55 +0000 Dawn Cruchet 1695 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/montreal-institute-palliative-care-leaders-pc-education <p>As a 23-bed palliative care facility operating in the west end of Montreal since 2002, <a href="https://residencesoinspalliatifs.ca/en/">the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence</a> (“The Residence”), wanted to increase the availability of quality palliative care beyond its four walls. In 2018, it founded the Montreal Institute for Palliative Care (“The Institute”), whose goal was to enlarge palliative care access, capacity and quality through education, knowledge exchange, research and advocacy.</p> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:03:27 +0000 Anita Mehta, Director of Education and Knowledge Exchange. TDPCR 1558 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/5th-international-congress-whole-person-care-teaching-whole-person-care-elephants-room <p>For this year’s Congress we are focusing on the often unspoken about “Elephants in the Room” when we teach and promote whole person care. There are many such elephants. As well as focusing on a few that we are aware of, we will provide a space for participants to bring their own elephants to explore with the group.</p> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:08:01 +0000 Tom Hutchinson 1560 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/palliative-revolution-igniting-change-chpca-conference-2023 <p>The upcoming Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) Conference will be taking place in beautiful downtown Ottawa between October 12 and 14 – just a few steps from the seat of our federal government. What better place to gather palliative professionals, students, volunteers, and community members than at the confluence of Canadian culture, politics, and history?</p> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:12:07 +0000 Katrielle Ethier 1562 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/spotlight-caregiver-grief-initiatives-grief-literacy-and-support <p>As a result of their caregiving-related roles and responsibilities, caregivers’ personal, social, professional, and financial situations can be greatly affected (Bom et al., 2019). Caregivers can spend many years caring for someone who is in a vulnerable state and thus, may have to reorganize their lives and identities to adapt to the caregiving role. Pivotal research in the past decade has demonstrated that caregivers can experience increased anxiety, psychological distress, fatigue, and social isolation, among other consequences (Sinha, 2013; Turcotte, 2013).</p> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:16:01 +0000 Rebecca Pimienta 1564 at /palliativecare /palliativecare/article/insight-practice-spiritual-care <p>For as long as I can remember, I’ve been curious about the ways that people understand themselves and their lives. When it came to choosing a profession, I knew that I wanted to explore possibilities of freedom from suffering and to provide some kind of direct, therapeutic care for people in crisis. Through my education and personal experience, I saw that a person’s capacity to think and feel deeply into their lives, with the help of cultural, religious and internal resources, could be profoundly freeing. When I heard about spiritual care, I felt like I had struck gold.</p> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:17:40 +0000 Emma Abman, MA, Spiritual Care Practitioner - MUHC 1565 at /palliativecare