Make advance care planning your gift of love for this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine's Day, be bold and loving - start an Advance Care Planning conversation with someone you love.
Visualizing Peace in Palliative Care
Find out how visualizing peaceful, relaxing images from nature or elsewhere in life can help those in their final months and days.
Animals as Caretakers
Current research and media have proven over and over the beauty and efficacy of engaging therapy animals at end of life.
A New Year’s Resolution to Die For
Why does a New Year’s resolution have to be all about “me”? Lose weight. Reduce debt. Close a big business deal. Develop your personal “SMART” goals. How about a resolution that can impact those closest to you forever? It’s not a common goal, I realize. Actually I have never heard [...]
How Palliative Massage Can Help
Touch is one of the first ways to communicate with a newborn, and one of the last ways to connect with a dying person. Massage can still offer pleasure as we begin our journey of active dying. Family and friends, who often feel there is nothing they can do for [...]
Coping with Christmas
Is Christmas difficult this year because you will be missing a loved one? Are you wondering how you'll manage without them? Here are 7 strategies that you can use right now to help you cope with Christmas.
Art Therapy in Palliative Care
In this second in our series about complementary therapies and palliative care, Art Therapist in training – Dorothy Mackintosh – tells us how art therapy has the power to improve quality of life for loved ones and caregivers alike. Art therapy and art as therapy became my life-line after my own [...]
Helping Those in Grief during the Holidays
The Christmas holiday is a very special time, as it is an important time to connect with family and friends, and celebrate together the events and developments that have taken place that year. For some people though, Christmas is a lonely time as they have lost a spouse or another [...]
How can we support grieving children?
There are children who are grieving all around us: in our families, our neighbourhoods, our classrooms, our sports teams. Children grieve in their own unique way when someone in their life dies. Find out how you can support them.