Reading Time: 3 minutes These assumptions can harm caregivers over time. Happiness and fulfilment are emotions that must be generated from within
Tag: Family Ties
No going back from suddenly becoming a caregiver
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are a few basic truths that reveal themselves in almost every story of sudden-onset caregiving. The first is that love remains intact
Growing number of seniors lack support of family, friends
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unbefriended,’ these isolated seniors require more help to safeguard their access to basic daily needs, including companionship, and improve their quality of life
Address your fear of dying, express end-of-life care wishes
Reading Time: 4 minutes As physicians, we see death made worse and more painful every day by poor advance care planning
Health-care funding reform needed to address aging population
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why we need a publicly funded insurance program for home care and long-term care
Long health-care wait times costing Canadians time and money
Reading Time: 3 minutes Long wait times (and their consequences) shouldn’t be the price we pay for a universal health-care
The best faith-based response to physician-assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians need quality, accessible palliative care, not a quick end to life
Why Canadians need to have end of life conversations
Reading Time: 3 minutes People who have end of life conversations with their doctors and family members are much more likely to be satisfied with their care
Why patients at the end of life may not be receiving the best care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing comfort care should be the first priority for those nearing the end
Assisted suicide raises troubling questions
Reading Time: 3 minutes For anyone wondering why physician-hastened death makes disabled people feel vulnerable, wonder no more