Take action to drive palliative care forward

Join health care professionals across Canada in taking action to improve palliative care. Together, we can make a difference for patients, families, and communities.

Make your commitment

Share your commitment to advancing palliative care

As we mark 25 years of progress at Pallium Canada and 50 years of palliative care in Canada, the power to create lasting change in your community is in your hands.

Your actions can transform care for patients and their families

Every conversation, referral, or small change in your practice can improve quality of life for patients with serious illness and support their families. By taking a pledge today, you help ensure that compassionate, timely, and patient-centered care reaches more people across Canada.

Make your commitment

Need inspiration?

Not sure what to commit to? Here are some real examples to inspire your own commitment:

Continuously learning and growing in palliative care.

Advocating for improved access to palliative care in my community.

Improving how I support patients and families in my care.

Recognizing and supporting the needs of caregivers in my community.

I am committed to continually strengthening education and advocacy for palliative care in the community. Palliative care is not only about end of life, but also about providing the best possible support and quality of life for anyone who could benefit from it. My hope is that those who choose an at-home death can experience it as a meaningful, compassionate, and therapeutic journey for the client, their family, and their caregivers. Continuing to ensure that all who need palliative support in the community receive the highest standard of care.

Kristin Gallant

Registered Nurse (RN), LEAP Facilitator

My commitment is to long-term care. I really hope that we will live in a world soon where every team member in long-term care — whether it’s personal support workers, physicians, volunteers, kitchen staff, or cleaning staff — has access to palliative care training, which is tailored to their role and care setting.

Dr. Amit Arya

Palliative Care Physician, LEAP Long-Term Care Facilitator

At Saint Elizabeth Foundation, we believe that everyone deserves dignity, compassion, and quality care at the end of life—no matter who they are, where they live, or the challenges they face. Through initiatives like Journey Home Hospice and the National Centre for Equity in End of Life Care, we are working to remove barriers, amplify voices, and ensure that those most often left behind receive the care they deserve. We know that lasting change happens when we act together. That’s why we invite you to make your own commitment—big or small—to advancing equity in palliative and end-of-life care in your practice or community. Every action matters.

Fr. Dr. Matthew Durham

Saint Elizabeth Foundation

I commit to ongoing educational opportunities to educate about the need for a disability informed approach to palliative care for our disability community.

Carrie Batt

I commit to continuously relating the Western principles of Palliative Care to the Indigenous Wellness Model, and advocating that this philosophy of care is required in the care of First Nations people.

Robin Cano

Registered Nurse (RN)

As a Palliative Care Clinical Coach, I commit to being an agent of change by supporting OHT community partners in creating linkages in delivering a more seamless palliative approach to care.

Dawn Knight

Registered Nurse (RN)

I commit to educate fellow hospital administrators on the value and impact of a palliative approach to care.

Cherryl Ann Koylass

Sharing my passion for palliative care with my colleagues and the pharmacists of tomorrow, by providing education at every opportunity.

Serena Rix

Pharmacist

Make your commitment

Fill out the form below to share the action you will take to advance palliative care in your practice or community. Your commitment doesn’t have to be perfect! We have provided some examples, or you can share your own.

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I commit to:

Continuously learning and growing in palliative care.

Advocating for improved access to palliative care in my community.

Improving how I support patients and families in my care.

Recognizing and supporting the needs of caregivers in my community.

Fostering better communication within my team and organization.

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Say it loud: “I took the #CommitmentToPalliativeCare — now it’s your turn!”

Challenge your colleagues, friends, and followers to join the movement and help us build a stronger, united palliative care community across Canada.

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Every action counts in advancing palliative care across Canada, no matter how small!

Join the conversation online with #CommitmentToPalliativeCare and connect with others dedicated to improving palliative care.

Join the movement

”My commitment is to my community, where I work, live and play to ensure through advocacy for access, public education and compassionate action all Canadians have access to care and those who who can can help care for them when, where, how they need it. Because we all deserve the chance to live until we die and to die the way we lived with dignity and compassion.
Maria RuggRegistered Nurse (RN)