Originally published @allaboutestates.ca Last week was Canada’s National Hospice Palliative Care Week. So what is palliative care? Since its inception in Canada in the 1970’s, things have changed quite a bit. Only a few years ago, the…
Originally published at allaboutestates.ca on July 8, 2015 There was a recent article in the Globe and Mail that highlights the need for a very important decision to be made, the decision to be an organ donor and more specifically to this…
Originally posted in allabouteestates.ca on October 8, 2014: (Miller and Ruiter-Kohn) “For most people in the developed world, conversations about such topics (as death) never take place. Young people remark in passing that they would…
By: Audrey R. Miller MSW, RSW,CCRC, CCLCP Printed online @ CARP, April 10, 2012 I know about the importance of communicating to loved ones, friends and physicians about ones’ own future health care wishes and end of life care. The…