HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Health Care In Canada, Sandwich Generation, Ernest Becker
23 Apr 2017
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Canada"s population is aging so, over the next 40 years, the demand for hospice palliative and end of life care will grow. By 2020, that number will increase by 33% to more than 330,000 deaths a year. It is estimated that each death in canada affects the immediate well-being of, on average, five other people. End of life care for seniors requires an active, compassionate approach that treats, comforts and supports older individuals who are living with, or dying from, progressive or chronic life- threatening conditions. Such care is sensitive to personal, cultural and spiritual values, beliefs and practices and encompasses support for families and friends up to and including the period of bereavement. Those who learned to know death, rather that to fear and fight it, became our teachers about. Recognized as the founder of the modern hospice movement. Revolutionized the way in which society cares for the ill, the dying and the bereaved.
