National Hospice Palliative Care Week

ARCHIVE - 2005

Monday, May 2, 2005
to
Sunday, May 8, 2005

National Hospice Palliative Care Week takes place from May 2^nd to May 8^th, 2005. The Week is nationally coordinated by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), with financial assistance from Health Canada and The GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. 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 celebrate, recognize, and share the achievements of hospice palliative care in your community and throughout the nation. It is also a time to educate Canadians about hospice palliative care and a time to reflect on many of the challenges facing caregivers.

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’s theme ‘The Many Faces of Caregiving’ is all inclusive to reflect the many different forms of caregiving at the end of life.

To order posters, bookmarks, or other resources created for the Week or to share some of the activities your organization plans to facilitate, please contact Tammie Winsor, Project Coordinator, at 1-800-668-2785 ext. 224 or by email at twinsor@scohs.on.ca.

National Hospice Palliative Care Week Advisory Committee
Terms of Reference - NHPCW Advisory Committee