Everyone has a slightly different experience with serious illness, palliative and end-of-life care. However, there are many experiences that are similar. Watch these videos to learn more about this approach to care and how palliative and end-of-life care made a difference for these Albertans.
Palliative Care: Dying with dignity
This short video is a brief summary of what palliative care is. Learn about some important aspects of this approach to care.
Palliative Care: You are a bridge (Get palliative care)
Understanding palliative care
In this module you will learn how palliative care helps to relieve the symptoms and stress of living with a serious illness.
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What everyone should know about palliative care
Palliative care doesn’t mean giving up. In this video you will hear Albertans talk about their experience with palliative care.
White rose program
In this video you will learn about the White Rose Program and how it works. The White Rose Program is a way of showing respect by creating a quiet and calm environment for those who are dying and their families.
Palliative care can help you and your family:
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The difference between care and caring
A brief look into compassionate care in a hospital setting.
Friends, family, food - Andrew's story
Living everyday right up to the end of hospice.
Life is beautiful - Deb's story
Having important end-of-life conversations before the end comes. Can make the final days a true celebration of life.
I was this person - Teresa's story
Recognizing the importance of family caregivers, no matter how that is defined, during palliative care and at the end-of-life... and how the Grief Support program can help the family caregivers who gave so much of themselves.
Requests honoured - Dave's story
Having a loved one die at home with the support of palliative home and community care.
Perspective - Charlotte's story
Losing a loved one in an acute palliative care setting and the little things that healthcare providers do to make it that much more bearable.
Being with Dad: Lenora's story
Challenges and possibilities of providing end-of-life care for the elderly in continuing care homes. This story touches on themes related to elder-friendly care, "palliation in place", and what it means to family members when staff does their best to support everyone, both the elderly and their family members, at end-of-life.
Living and dying my way: Heather's story
From the perspective of a Palliative Care professional who becomes a patient this story emphasizes the importance of supporting individual choices during the end-of-life journey.
Bridges: Janet's story
As a palliative care nurse specialist, Janet shares her story about her experiences in palliative care. She talks about how, when delivered early in the trajectory of a person’s serious illness, palliative care contributes to meaning, comfort, and calm as they live the last part of their life.
Pediatric palliative care
Precious life, meaningful choices
Often children and families who need palliative care have multiple special needs. In the film, you’ll meet 4 families who share their experiences with palliative care. The families of these children embrace their child’s life with courage, love, and hope in the middle of uncertainty.
Out of order: Dealing with the death of a child
Several sets of parents talk about their feelings when they lost a child. They talk about their grief journey.
A family disrupted: Dealing with the death of a sibling
3 people talk about their experience when they lost a sibling and the turmoil this put their families into.
Love and sorrow: Dealing with the death of a child with special needs
Meet 4 parents who have experienced the death of a special needs child. These parents speak openly about their children and their grief experiences.
Lost innocence: Dealing with the death of a young child
Meet 3 parents who have experienced the death of a young child. These parents speak openly about their children and their grief experiences.
