Palliative Care

A blog post by Fr. Matthew M. Durham, the Executive Director, Hospice Palliative Care & Community Development, Saint Elizabeth Foundation, sharing his insights on the ‘HopeLine’ created by the Archdiocese of Toronto and operated by Saint Elizabeth Foundation.

A new project from the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research is shining a much-needed light on uplifting palliative care stories across the country.

As support for euthanasia grows across the country, the line between genuine and holistic palliative care and medical assistance in dying has become increasingly blurred nearly inconclusively according to palliative care professionals in Canada.

Amplifying advocacy and pastoral care efforts, bolstering educational resources and championing life-affirming legislation are among the recommendations emerging from an international interfaith symposium on palliative care staged in Toronto late last month.

A Quebec Superior Court judge has denied the Archdiocese of Montreal’s request for a stay of the legal obligation placed on a Montreal palliative care centre to offer assisted death to its residents.