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National Hospice Palliative Care Week takes place from May 7 – 13, 2007. The Week is nationally coordinated by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), with financial assistance from The GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, Bayshore Home Health, Valeant, and Purdue.  CHPCA is the national association which provides leadership in hospice palliative care and end-of-life care.

National Hospice Palliative Care Week is a time to raise awareness, celebrate, recognize, and share the achievements of hospice palliative care in your community and throughout the nation.

National Hospice Palliative Care Week provides hospice palliative care programs and services across Canada a chance to showcase their services and encourage people to discuss end-of-life care issues. Some of the past activities these groups have organized to meet this goal included opening the doors of their facilities to the public and media and organizing seminars and conferences.

This year marks the second year of a three year campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Advance Care Planning.  Advance Care Planning is a process by which you and your health care professional(s) discuss your wishes about what health care choices you want at the end-of-life. The focus of this year’s campaign is the role of Primary Health Care Providers in end-of-life care.

CHPCA will be distributing national posters and other resources in the next two weeks. In addition we will be updating our website with electronic resources created for the Week by the end of March.

If your program or service is registered with the CHPCA’s On-Line Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Programs and Services you will automatically receive this year’s resource kit in the mail.

To order additional posters, or other resources for the Week or to share some of the activities your organization plans to facilitate, please contact Linda Truglia, Project Coordinator, at 1-800-668-2785 ext. 228 or by email at ltruglia@scohs.on.ca

If you are not listed on the CHPCA On-Line Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Programs and Services and you would like to guarantee that you automatically receive National Hospice Palliative Care Week resources in the future, please visit the Directory to register your organization free of charge.

Terms of Reference - NHPCW Advisory Committee