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Canadian expertise about care of the dying is released on Apple iTunes, YouTube in celebration of World Hospice & Palliative Care Day |
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As part of World Hospice & Palliative Care Day the Canadian Pallium Project has launched no-cost, social media applications globally on Apple iTunes and YouTube under the Conversations on Caring banner (iTunes) and at the palliumcanada YouTube channel. |
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October 11, 2011 - Edmonton and Ottawa, Canada - As part of World Hospice & Palliative Care Day the Canadian Pallium Project has launched no-cost, social media applications globally on Apple iTunes® and YouTube® under the Conversations on Caring banner.
An initial set of ten Conversations on Caring Classics are being released as a series of 40 to 50 minute audio and video podcasts on Apple iTunes®. With the growing convergence of internet-based media in the home and workplace, including internet SmartTV options on the newest flatscreen televisions, the Classics sessions are being simultaneously released on the Canadian Pallium Project's YouTube channel. Simultaneous release on YouTube enables real-time, global online access via personal- and tablet-computing devices, smart phones, and internet-enabled television.
Conversations on Caring Classics are practical, interactive sessions conducted by recognized Canadian authorities from medicine, nursing, psychosocial, and other disciplines about enduring themes of serving the seriously-ill and dying in community-based settings. Topics include supporting families during advanced-illness and dying; engaging in dialogue with families; mitigating burnout and compassion fatigue in work with the dying; using hope as a resource; collaborating effectively with community-based physicians; supporting the bereaved during the holiday season, and others.
As more Canadians expect to live and die well in community settings including their own homes, there is a growing emphasis on leveraging the insights and wisdom of Canada's most experienced palliative and end-of-life care expert practitioners and scholars. World Hospice and Palliative Care Day was chosen for the release of Conversations on Caring Classics as it is a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world, especially at the community-level. The World Day 2011 theme is Many diseases, many...
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