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    Citizen brief: Improving access to palliative care in Ontario

    For concerned citizens and influential thinkers and doers, the McMaster Health Forum strives to be a leading hub for improving health outcomes through collective problem solving. Operating at the regional/provincial level and at national levels, the Forum harnesses information, convenes stakeholders and ...

    Advancing the integration of palliative care in the national health system

    This policy brief contributes to the evidence base of policy development for scaling up palliative care services across Uganda, particularly among population groups with ‘special needs’, such as the poor, those living in rural areas, children or parents with life-limiting diseases, the elderly, and t...

    What are the palliative care needs of older people and how might they be met?

    Ageing populations are characteristic of many countries. The pattern of disease at the end of life is changing and more people are living with serious chronic circulatory and respiratory diseases as well as with cancer. More people will need help at the end of life, in a social context of changing family...