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Resource Guide Launch: “Palliative Care Is… A collective response to death, dying, and grief”

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The ePAC Action Team, consisting of inner city workers, researchers, and palliative care practitioners,  has been working together for over five years to improve access to quality care for people facing serious illness and the life-limiting conditions of homelessness, poverty, racism, criminalization, and stigma in Victoria, BC (Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories). Now the group is […]

Powerful, transformative voices: Creative arts methods promote Indigenous end-of-life experiences

Producing stories about Indigenous peoples’ end-of-life cultural needs and preferences by Indigenous peoples, for Indigenous peoples, is an empowering and transformative research approach. Tess describes how the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group collaborates with Indigenous families using Kaupapa Māori Research (KMR) methods and creative arts methods, to empower them to […]

Using digital story-telling to capture untold stories of Medical Assistance in Dying

The purpose of this research was to deepen our understanding of the experiences of family and informal support networks (friends) that accompanied someone throughout their dying process involving MAiD in the province of Ontario. Using a social constructivist perspective to better understand the experiences of those who have been impacted by MAiD, digital stories were […]