The Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care (SPA-LTC) model and toolkit contains resources designed for individuals living in long-term care, and for anyone who is living, or caring for someone, with one of these conditions:
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Family Guides for Advancing Illnesses
A national team of health-care professionals and McMaster University’s School of Nursing have developed a ‘made in Canada’ model to provide people with chronic and life-limiting illnesses more opportunities to experience a high quality of life, and to support end of life planning and care.
Erica McDivitt has been serving medical imaging patients for more than two decades. She’s now teaching and mentoring the next generation of X-ray technologists.
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After arriving in Canada in 2018, Marianne Danzalan never lost sight of her goal of becoming a licensed physiotherapist.
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When April Wright isn’t caring for community members at the West Chilcotin Health Centre in Tatla Lake, she’s getting her hands dirty in her garden.
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Learn how to protect yourself from respiratory illnesses like the flu (influenza), COVID-19 and RSV.
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Every Friday at Senpaq’cin School in Oliver, students from k-7 take part in Fire Fridays, a land-based program that connects syilx language, culture and food.
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Olivia Duncan is long-term care coordinator who started her health care journey as a teenager. She fell in love with the energy of the hospital & nursing staff.
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