Palliative Care

Palliative care is the treatment and support of patients whose disease is no longer curable. It provides focus on treating patients' symptoms and making patients as comfortable as possible.

At UHN, we believe a supportive environment and appropriate assistance are key components of effective cancer treatment. A wide variety of social, psychological and psychiatric support services are available, to both patients and their families.

Our multidisciplinary psychosocial oncology and palliative care team includes professionals from social work, early childhood education, psychiatry, psychology, children's services, psychosocial research and palliative care. We also have close links to pastoral services, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, oncology nursing and volunteer resources.

UHN Resources

UHN Brochures and Pamphlets

•	Community Interlink
•	Coping with Cancer: Psychosocial Oncology & Palliative Care
•	Coping with the Palliative Phase: Resources in Your Community
•	Harold and Shirley Lederman Palliative Care Centre
•	Information on Living Wills and Power of Attorney
	English Chinese Portuguese Spanish Vietnamese
•	Interactive Symptom Assessment and Collection (ISAAC) Tool
•	Palliative Care at Home
•	Palliative Care Program
•	Palliative Care Program for Parkinson Disease
•	Physiotherapy in Palliative Care
•	Symptom Control & Palliative Care
•	When a Parent Has Cancer: Information & Resources
•	With Sympathy
•	You & Me: Activities for Patients & Children When a Parent Has Cancer

UHN Clinics or Centres

• Caring to the End
• PMH Clinics and Centres
• Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care

Related Web Sites

•	Hospice Net
	Provides guides to issues and concerns that arise from life threatening illness. Includes information for caretakers, families and the dying.
•	Living Lessons
	Living Lessons is a national initiative to increase awareness of hospice palliative care and services in Canada. By providing information, personal stories and a listing of professionals in palliative care, they seek to enhance the quality of life for individuals facing the last stages of life.
•	Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying
	Partnership for Caring is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the dying experience. It operates the only national crisis and information hotline dealing with end-of-life issues. This Web site has excellent fact sheets on end-of-life issues, advance directive information, and living will information.