South East Hospice Palliative Care
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**Hospice Palliative Care COVID-19 Resources**

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

Palliative care:

  • provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
  • affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
  • intends neither to hasten or postpone death;
  • integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
  • offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
  • offers a support system to help the family cope during the patients illness and in their own bereavement;
  • uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated;
  • will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness;
  • is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.

Source: World Health Organization

 

South East Regional Palliative Care Network

The South East Regional Palliative Care Network (RPCN) is a partnership of community stakeholders, care providers, patients, families and caregivers in South Eastern Ontario who work together to ensure that there is a coordinated, standardized approach for the delivery of hospice palliative care services. As a community of partners the South East RPCN is committed to improved access and equity in hospice, palliative and end-of-life care.

In the South East LHIN the regional priorities have been established after months of consultation and engagement with stakeholders that included patients, caregivers and families. Find out more.

 


 		     
Putting the needs of patients and families at the centre of the hospice palliative care system 

   
       		 “A Palliative Approach to Care is Everyone’s Business” - By Dr. Ingrid Harle, MD
 
 		  
 

Palliative Care Education Program

ALERT

THE PALLIATIVE CARE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR THE SOUTH EAST
IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
 
WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE AND DIRECT YOU TO ALTERNATE RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION
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  • Recognizing the growing need for palliative care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to share with you a few resources available from the Ontario Palliative Care Network (OPCN) and Pallium Canada:

    Planning for Palliative Care Delivery during the COVID 19 Pandemic: to assist those who may be participating in their institutional/local planning tables to develop a response for COVID-19. Access OPCN Report HERE.

    Palliative Care Resources to Support Frontline Providers during the COVID 19 Pandemic: summarizes readily available tools/resources to support palliative care delivery. Access OPCN Report HERE.

    Pallium Canada - Free, Online Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) modules for all health care professionals: to ensure patients with life-limiting illnesses, and their families, receive the care they need. Access more information on the modules HERE.