Palliative care is everyone’s responsibility

Supporting health-care workers to deliver improved palliative care for Canadians affords us all greater choice, more autonomy, and signals a critical paradigm shift.

All health professionals who care for patients with serious illnesses should have core skills in palliative care, but many doctors, nurses, and other health-care professionals in Canada say they feel unprepared for palliative care, writes Louise Bradley. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY LOUISE BRADLEY

March 13, 2023

The high profile and public attention drawn to the often polarizing debate around medical assistance in dying (MAID) is propelling an important dialogue, one that continues to be hushed at best, silenced at worst, for far too long.

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