Mark Johnston hugged his wife Sheri Lynn, for the last time. She was unaware of the embrace. She was already gone. In the early hours of August 31st Sheri Lynn, 41, took her last breath and succumbed to the disease she ...

: Mount Sinai’s Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care Director Dr. Russell Goldman and Counsellor Andrea Warnick review some of their cases. It takes a different approach to medicine to treat patients who are living out their final months, weeks ...

Marlene Grzesiak (left) and Judy Chapman. Our palliative case managers are experts who help you live as pain and symptom-free as possible and to support your wish to die in your place of choice, whether it is at home, ...

Baycrest Health Sciences has developed a mobile tablet app that allows palliative patients to report their discomfort symptoms, such as pain, nausea, drowsiness, anxiety and appetite, directly into their electronic health record that the doctor and healthcare team see. The app ...

St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto is not designated as a palliative care facility, but we provide quality treatment and compassionate support for palliative patients in medicine units throughout our hospital. In some cases, the Health Centre is the last place ...

Lise Johnson lies comfortably in her hospital bed, gazing toward the big, bright window in her room. “I feel such a feeling of peace,” she says. “I’m not afraid.” Lise is accompanied by her husband, Al, and their daughter, Nancy, on Ward ...

In a hospital that often operates beyond its bed capacity, there’s one bed, in a big, bright, beautiful room that’s reserved for a very special patient and family experience. It’s the “Special Care Bed” at Peterborough Regional Health Centre’s palliative unit ...

Caring for a friend or family member at the end-of-life can have many different faces - a woman struggling to manage a career and family while caring for a husband with cancer; a senior citizen with health problems caring for ...

Wendy’s 42nd birthday fell on a bright, warm Monday. That September afternoon, Wendy Almeida breathed her last breath, succumbing to her long battle with cancer. She felt secure and loved. Friends and family gathered to celebrate with her the previous ...

Roland Munro was dying. High-risk surgery that resulted from a sudden fall and post-operative complications left the active, 87-year-old musician in unbearable pain and his children with a heartbreaking task – preparations for end-of-life care. To provide comfort for their father ...