Help us get better at palliative care
Everyone in Canada should have a right to access affordable, culturally safe, high-quality palliative care.
We believe that everyone in Canada should have a right to access affordable, culturally safe, high-quality palliative care regardless of where they live and in what setting they choose to receive care.
Everyone deserves care that provides comfort, dignity, and choice when facing a serious illness. Palliative care achieves this by helping to manage symptoms, minimize pain and maximize comfort. Quality palliative care leads to better outcomes for people and their families and has the potential to reduce healthcare costs and take pressure off of the healthcare system.
While most Canadians support guaranteed access to publicly funded palliative care, too many still face barriers or go without entirely. People often only get referred to palliative care too late and not where they would prefer to get it, like their home or at a hospice in their community. Access can vary widely by geography and is all too often out of reach for people from underserved populations, such as rural and remote communities, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, and unhoused populations.
Send a letter to your elected officials
We can come together to call on all governments in Canada to recognize palliative care as a right. Join us by sending a letter to your provincial and federal elected officials. The more people that take action, the more governments will listen.
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We all want to live our lives as positively and as meaningfully as possible, right up to the end. Learn more about how palliative care has impacted people’s lives – which is why we feel so strongly that governments need to act so everyone who needs palliative care, gets it.