Death and dying are universal, but in Canada, palliative care is not

Despite having one of the most expensive health-care systems in the world, Canada lags its international counterparts in terms of access to quality end-of-life care.

The Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada is calling on the federal government to create and fund a dedicated national co-ordination office to implement the 2018 framework and 2019 action plan for palliative care in Canada, write Alexandra Zannis and Dr. Romayne Gallagher. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY ALEXANDRA ZANNIS AND ROMAYNE GALLAGHER

April 13, 2022

We don’t really think about palliative care until we or someone we know needs it. It’s an area of healthcare that is nuanced and often piecemeal—both in its availability and its delivery. Over the past two years of the pandemic, we have seen a drastic increase in our collective experience of ...

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