🚨Our The Lancet Public Health viewpoint calls for strategic investment in #bereavement care as a #PublicHealth priority➡️Led by Wendy Lichtenthal from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, we offer a transitional care model for institutions & communities to sustainably support grievers🔗:authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S24…🌍🫂❤️‍🩹

Four years of #COVID19 . Over 57,000 confirmed deaths in Canada. 3.5 million people with #LongCOVID . Introducing the Canadian Covid Society, by 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] Chris Houston Kashif Pirzada, MD Nancy Delagrave Cheryl White canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/03/06/int… via Canada Healthwatch 🍁 Canadian Covid Society/Société canad. de la covid

Whistleblower’s decades long fight to save patients from dangerous research. How ⁦Dr. Nancy Olivieri⁩ chose patient safety over her career. via ⁦The BMJ⁩ ⁦Carl Elliott⁩ bmj.com/content/384/bm…

I’ll just leave this here: chicagobooth.edu/review/when-pr…

New Episode Alert! Always appreciate the opportunity to talk with Dr. Jeff Myers. In this episode we talk about serious illness conversations, educating future #physicians & the important relationship between #palliativecare and #MAiD . Give our conversation a listen!

CERAH Indigenous Peoples’ Health & Aging Division Team all ready for the Advancing Indigenous Policy & Practice Knowledge Exchange! #AIPP #knowledgeexchange

Wow! 20 years Canadian Virtual Hospice ! What an impact this organization has made to #palliativecare , #healthcare #education and #advocacy . #Canadians have better #care at the end of life because of your work and efforts. #gratitude

Thank you to the ⁦Toronto Star⁩, journalist Maria Iqbal, Max Bolka & ⁦Marney Thompson⁩ for sharing this insightful story about grief and resources that can help. ⁦Canadian Virtual Hospice⁩ ⁦Paul Adams⁩ ⁦Kathy Kortes-Miller⁩ ⁦Maxxine Rattner PhD, RSW (she/her)⁩ thestar.com/news/canada/gr…

Check out Episode 12 of Disrupting Death: 'I want to ___ until I die: Disrupting Death with Kathy Kastner! On this episode, we speak with entrepreneur, author, and volunteer witness for #MAiD #podcast
@kathykastner

More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - Save the Children Global Media

Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed

savethechildren.net/news/gaza-more…

The Decibel had me on to discuss how we can help the grieving. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/whe…

This was just sent to me by the friends in Anglican community in Jerusalem.

I know of kothing more urgent right now.

Whether you’ve experienced a death, a decline in health, or rel’ship loss - your #grief is valid. Share your thoughts & inform an initiative to support people who are grieving. tinyurl.com/CGAGriefSurvey Dr. Susan Cadell she/her Mary Ellen Macdonald Maxxine Rattner PhD, RSW (she/her) Marney Thompson Kathy Kortes-Miller #MakeGriefAPriority

So exciting to see this in print! Thank you Paul Adams and The Globe and Mail for your contributions to #MakeGriefAPriority

New paper alert! 🚨

'Many patients I worked with would regularly express feeling that they should be doing their dying differently than they were, and this internalized expectation was itself a source of suffering.'

#PalliativeCare #TotalPain #suffering #hospice

It was an honour to welcome Dr. Theresa Tam Canada's CPHO and President Heather Jeffrey Health Canada and PHAC to Lakehead University. Research Centres, CERAH, CRaNHR, and EPID@Work shared initiatives in Health Research and the importance of community connections. #lakeheadri #mylakehead

This is so important! Please take the time to answer and to share. We can all benefit from understanding #grief better. #grief literacy

It’s #NationalGriefandBereavementDay 🍁 Pls share your thoughts on #grief & inform work to support grieving Cdns & development of a nat’l action plan tinyurl.com/CGAGriefSurvey. Dr. Susan Cadell she/her Mary Ellen Macdonald Kathy Kortes-Miller Maxxine Rattner PhD, RSW (she/her) Marney Thompson Megan Devine BC Centre for Palliative Care Naheed Dosani

Today we launch a national consultation to inform our work. Whether you’ve experienced a death, decline in health, or relationship loss - your grief is valid. shorturl.at/afiI8 Kathy Kortes-Miller Kelli Stajduhar Naheed Dosani Samantha Winemaker she/her BC Centre for Palliative Care BereavementONNetwork Maxxine Rattner PhD, RSW (she/her) Marney Thompson

CGA applauds Minister Holland and Health Canada and PHAC for this important first step to #MakeGriefAPriority shorturl.at/bMRX7 Kathy Kortes-Miller Paul Adams Maxxine Rattner PhD, RSW (she/her) Marney Thompson BereavementONNetwork BC Centre for Palliative Care CHPCA Canadian Virtual Hospice Hsien Seow PhD Samantha Winemaker she/her Mary Ellen Macdonald