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A video excerpt that outlines a reflective debriefing session to support people and practice in long-term care. The facilitator asks the staff to talk about what went well, what didn’t go so well, and what can be learned moving forward.

The interprofessional palliative champion team is a key element necessary for the successful delivery of palliative care. This document can be adapted so that long-term care homes can create their own terms of reference for their palliative champion teams.

Asking questions of health care providers can sometimes be hard. Many of us simply do not know the questions we could be asking to help us better understand and plan for the future. This question prompt sheet has been designed to open up conversations between you, your family, and members of the health care staff. The answers to these questions may not be simple or straightforward; dementia affects each person in different ways.

A summary form to be used in Palliative Care Conferences in Ontario

A questionnaire for Resident/SDM/Family members to complete before Palliative Care Conferences.

A Staff Planning Checklist to be referenced and completed before a palliative care conference.

A 20-minute video that explores the essential role of family caregivers in long-term care.

As a loved approaches their final days, it can be difficult to know what to expect. This video explores what family and staff can expect for their loved one at the end of life.

A conversation with members of the Saskatchewan Long Term Care Network about the importance of family members in Long Term Care.

A conversation with members of the Saskatchewan Long Term Care Network.

Advance care planning (ACP) helps individuals with progressive, life-limiting illnesses communicate their preferences for end-of-life (EOL) care to family members and healthcare providers. Despite known benefits, ACP is rarely utilized in LTC settings. To address the barriers of ACP in LTC, our team developed, implemented, and evaluated the effects of disease-specific illness trajectory pamphlets (ITPs) for five life-limiting advanced clinical syndromes of high prevalence in LTC: dementia, heart failure, COPD, renal failure, and frailty.

The QPL is a list of questions designed to help the family carer in asking questions which may help them understand the process better. The QPL is a list of commonly asked questions that the family carers may wish to ask the internal facilitator during the FCC. This list is designed as a guide only and some questions may not be specific to all family carers, however it may be used as a guide of conversation for the family carer to ask questions that may not otherwise have crossed their minds, or in some cases may not be required at all. It is a companion to the Comfort Care Booklet.