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Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers- Textbook

This textbook is written specifically for personal support workers, healthcare assistants, nurse’s aides, community support workers. It will engage you...

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Cancer Information and Support Service

This  national, bilingual, toll-free service is provided by the Canadian Cancer Society for patients, families and health care providers. Cancer...

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One Chance to Get it Right

The Liverpool Care Pathway developed in the 1990’s was a generic model intended to replicate palliative care across settings.  In...

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The Palliative Approach for Advanced Kidney Disease in Long Term Care

This pamphlet was made to help persons with Advanced Kidney Disease and their families know what to expect at the...

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Refractory Symptoms and Palliative Sedation Therapy Guideline

This guideline provides recommendations for the ongoing assessment and symptom management of adult patients (age 19 years and older) living...

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Managing Hiccoughs

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Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience

As part of the JAMA evidence series, Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience offers evidence-based and clinical expert...

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Sedation in Palliative Care - Indications and Guidelines

The video includes a lecture style presentation by assistant professor Jennifer Philip on the indications and guidelines around sedation in...

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Symptom Management in Comfort End-of-Life Care of Pneumonia

An approach to managing terminal pneumonia, a common end-of-life complication in many progressive chronic conditions, including dementia,...

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The Palliative Approach for Advanced Frailty in Long Term Care

This pamphlet was made to help persons with Advanced Frailty and their families know what to expect at the end...

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