Resources

Cancer Care Ontario has excellent resources for people wondering about cancer tests and for those living with cancer as well as evidence-based tools for health practitioners.

Caring Bridge offers free personal protected websites allow users to post about their health and create request lists which define what they need and allow family and friends to help without having to constantly ask what they can do.

Living My Culture is a Canadian website developed by Virtual Hospice where people from various cultures share their stories and wisdom about living with serious illness, end of life and grief.

Living Out Loud.Life is a webspace affiliated with Virtual Hospice is designed to be a place for teens and young adults living with advanced illness to connect and share and get information from health professionals.

Advance Care Planning Ontario offers resources for helping everybody to develop an Advance Care Plan and for health professionals to promote advance care planning.

The Toronto University Health Network provides helpful guidelines on using the Internet to find information about your health.

While not a palliative resource Age-Friendly Peterborough produces some excellent resources that are relevant to senior citizens and those managing a life threatening illness including The Seniors Directory and the Be Prepared Program which includes a workbook designed to help you collect all your relevant information together in one place in case of an emergency.

The Central East Healthline is designed and maintained by the Central East Local Health Integrated Network (CE LHIN). This website for health care professionals and people living in the CE LHIN offers accurate, up-to-date information about health services. Ontario211 has a similar mandate and also connects people with community services in Peterborough City and County.

Hospice Palliative Care Ontario it the provincial association of hospices and palliative care providers that Hospice Peterborough belongs to.

Lighthouse for Grieving Children and Families is an Ontario based non-profit has a children’s section, youth section and parent/caregiver section to their website along with tip sheets, suggested books and other resources.

My Grief are Canadian modules were developed by Virtual Hospice to help people understand and work through grief. Choose only the modules applicable to your situation and work through them at your own pace.

The Canadian Grief Alliance is a group of leading grief specialists and more than 150 national and provincial organizations that are encouraging the Government to adopt a proposal to address national gaps in grief services. The Alliance offers webinars and Facebook live events on grief. Discussion forums can be reached at Canadian Virtual Hospice :: Home :: Support :: Discussion Forums

The Irish Hospice Foundation has done significant work developing bereavement resources including developing a short five-minute module on understanding the grieving process.

Hospice Palliative Care Ontario is the provincial association of hospices and palliative care providers that Hospice Peterborough belongs to.

Pallium is a Canadian organization with online education resources on palliative care and creating compassionate communities. Pallium also produces the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook and facilitates delivery of courses across the country such as LEAP (Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care).

Virtual Hospice provides information for people living with a palliative diagnosis, family and professional caregivers; includes discussion forums, videos for family caregivers on how to provide care and evidence-based tools for health professionals.