Resources & Links
Useful links and access to resources that you might find helpful in your life journey.
Hospice Palliative Care
Association quebecoise des soins palliatifs
British Columbia Hospice Palliative Care Association
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Canadian Virtual Hospice [en]
Canadian Virtual Hospice [fr]
Caregiving Matters
http://www.caregivingmatters.ca/
Chalice of Repose Project - Music Thanatology
Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services in Canada
www.chpca.net/canadian_directory_of_services.htm
Dying Well
Government of Northwest Territories - Department of Health and Social Services
Government of Nunavut - Department of Health and Social Services
Government of Yukon - Department of Health and Social Services
Growth House, Inc.
A resource based site with materials on all aspects of hospice and palliative care.
Hospice and Palliative Care Manitoba
Hospice Association of Ontario
Hospice Palliative Care Association of Prince Edward Island
www.chpca.net/canadian_directory_of_services.htm
This link takes you to the Canadian Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services where you can click on "Provincial Hospice Palliative Care Associations" for contact information.
Life and Death Matters
Meets the learning needs of caregivers committed to enhancing end of life care, through educational resources, workshops and more.
Living Legacies
Provides useful information in regards to supporting a patient deemed palliative.
Living Lessons
A useful site that promotes to promote information and understanding of Canadian hospice care.
New Brunswick Palliative Care Association
www.chpca.net/canadian_directory_of_services.htm
This link takes you to the Canadian Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services where you can click on "Provincial Hospice Palliative Care Associations" for contact information.
Newfoundland & Labrador Palliative Care Association
www.chpca.net/canadian_directory_of_services.htm
This link takes you to the Canadian Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services where you can click on "Provincial Hospice Palliative Care Associations" for contact information.
Nova Scotia Hospice Palliative Care Association
www.chpca.net/canadian_directory_of_services.htm
This link takes you to the Canadian Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services where you can click on "Provincial Hospice Palliative Care Associations" for contact information.
Ontario Palliative Care Association
Palliative Care Association of Alberta
Quality of Life Matters
Quarterly clinical end-of-life care newsletter customized for hospices to use as a physician educational tool.
Saskatchewan Palliative Care Association Inc.
Society for Integrative Oncology
Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care
The Healing Cycle
Fundraising program for Ontario Hospice Palliative Care
The International Association of Hospice and PalliativeCare
The world wide association for Hospice and Palliative Care's website filled with great support and advice.
The Pallium Project
Threshold Choir
Wellspring
Caregiving
Canadian Homecare Association
Caregiving Matters
Offers support and education to those coping with the declining health or death of a parent.
Eldoncare
specializing in Alzheimer Disease education
Family Caregiver Alliance
A U.S. based online help site for caregivers including support groups, resource guides and disease-specific information.
Legacies Inc.
Legacies provides publications and other resources in caregiving.
Simply for Seniors and Those Caring for Seniors
www.myuxbridge.info/seniors.htm
The Canadian Association of Provincial Care Agencies
The Careguide Online
The Long Way Home: a journey through Alzheimer's
Focusing on the human aspects of Alzheimer’s, rather than the medical or clinical ones, this book gives readers a clearer picture of what caregivers go through on a daily basis, helping them to understand the disease more fully and empowering them to deal with it. Written by Marion Ritchie.
Grief And Bereavement
Baby Boomers Face Grief
In an easy to read, personal narrative format, author Jane Galbraith affords us a glimpse into what we will all face and some strategies to cope with our loss.
Collecting Loss: Weaving Threads of Memory
Collecting Loss is a community based art project which begins with collecting clothes that belonged to people who have died and then collecting the story this clothing evokes from those who loved them.
On Grief and Grieving
Quality of Life Publishing
Specialists in gentle grief support offering books, booklets, and interactive workshops. Quality of Life Publishing also offers a speakers bureau featuring authors and experts in grief and bereavement.
Robert's Press and the Grief Resource Centre
The Association for Death Education and Counseling
A useful site for those interested in teaching or learning more about death, dying and bereavement.
The Centre for the Grief Journey
Dr. Bill Webster's comprehensive site providing practical support and advice for those individuals who are grieving after a significant loss.
Spiritual Care
Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education
InterChurch Health Ministries
International Parish Nurse Resource Centre
Ontario Multifaith Council
Rev. Dr. Anne Simmonds
Selah Resources
These resources provide opportunities to enrich your mind and soul.
Music Therapy & Arts in Healthcare
American Music Therapy Association
Arts Health Network
Created to advance understanding of the many ways that arts-based activities contribute to individual and community health.
Canadian Association for Music Therapy
Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education CCAHTE
Institute for Music and Neurological Function
Java Music Club
The Java Music Club is a unique, mutual support group program for long term care homes, residential supportive housing and community health organizations that group participants and staff love and: a) is easy to implement by existing staff (no musical skills required); and b) comes with complete programs materials and training for staff.
Laurier Centre for Music Therapy Research
McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind
Prelude Music Therapy
Serves children and adults with special needs by sharing information; creating and publishing music therapy strategies; conducting presentations; and, by offering music therapy resources.
Society for Arts in Healthcare
Songs of Love Foundation
Nursing
Best Masters in Nursing
http://www.bestmastersinnursing.com
indepth and unbiased inforation about top Masters in Nursing programs
Canadian Nurses Association
Grant MacEwan College - Post Basic Nursing Practice
Offers a Hospice Palliative Care and Gerontological Nursing certificate program.
International Parish Nurse Resource Centre
National Gerontological Nurses Association
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario RNAO
Rutgers College of Nursing
Related Associations and Agencies
Alberta Therapeutic Recreation Association
ALS Society of Canada
Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange Resource Centre
Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange Resource Centre - Behavioural Support Systems Series
Alzheimer's Association (USA)
Alzheimer's Society of Canada
Canadian Association of Gerontology
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Dementia Resource and Knowledge Exchange (cDRAKE)
www.lifeandminds.ca/research/view.php?type=2
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Central East Hospice Palliative Care Network
The Central East Ontario Hospice Palliative Care Network is a voluntary affiliation of hospice palliative care and related organizations, designed to support cooperation and collaboration of hospice palliative care activities across the entire continuum of care.
Centre for Studies in Aging & Health
Comfort Life
Mesothelioma Web
Mesothelioma Web is a comprehensive information source on mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung caused by exposure to asbestos. The site provides facts about symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, palliative care, nutrition, and chemotherapy, as well as information on clinical trials.
Murray Alzheimer Research Education Programme MAREP
Ontario Long Term Care Association OLTCA
Ontario Retirement Communities Association ORCA
Ontario Trillium Foundation
The Ontario Trillium Foundation, one of Canada’s leading grantmaking foundations, is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO)
Princess Margaret Hospital
Raffi's Child Honouring Organization
Rainbows Canada
The Breast Cancer Site
The Canadian Health Network
www.canadian-health-network.ca
Is sponsored by Health Canada with partnerships of many Canadian health care organizations.
The Central Dementia Network, Toronto
The Heart and Stroke Foundation
The Parkinson Society Canada
Top Retirement Homes
http://www.topretirementhomes.ca
Venturing Out Beyond Our Cancer VOBOC