As a national registered charitable organization with more than two decades of experience, Pallium Canada is proud to be the largest provider of palliative care education in Canada.
About Pallium Canada
Advancing palliative care for all Canadians
Pallium Canada is a national registered charitable organization focused on building professional and community capacity to help improve the quality and accessibility of palliative care in Canada.
With over two decades of experience and over 60,000 learners reached, Pallium Canada is the largest palliative care education provider for health systems and health care organizations across Canada. Our extensive experience and expertise have helped hundreds of partners build palliative care capacity from individual practices to large-scale provincial initiatives.
Pallium Canada’s story
Pallium Canada was founded in 2000 by passionate front-line health care providers who saw a major gap in palliative care services and wanted to develop better training and resources to help health care providers provide better palliative care. Its goal was to expand access to, and quality of, palliative and end-of-life care services for Canadians.
Pallium has since grown into a community of clinicians, educators, researchers, carers, administrators, volunteers, Indigenous leaders, and citizen advocates working together to accelerate the integration of palliative care in Canadian communities and health care systems.
Read the four foundational publications that tell the story of Pallium’s evolution, from the pedagogical theory behind LEAP to the success behind spreading and scaling the palliative care approach.
Primary-level Palliative Care National Capacity: Pallium Canada in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care: Pallium’s evolution, including the national spread of its education and compassionate communities’ programs and the factors that accelerate or impede success.
Pallium Canada’s Curriculum Development Model: A Framework to Support Large-Scale Courseware Development and Deployment in the Journal of Palliative Medicine: The design framework that allows Pallium to develop, launch, and maintain numerous versions of LEAP courses concurrently.
Navigating Design Options for Large-Scale Interprofessional Continuing Palliative Care Education: Pallium Canada’s Experience in Palliative Medicine Reports: The learning design decisions that underpin Pallium’s interprofessional LEAP courses.
Learner Experiences Matter in Interprofessional Palliative Care Education in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management: The experience and benefits to learners of participating in an interprofessional course on palliative care.
Transforming health care practice
Pallium’s award-winning and interprofessional Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) courses are Canada’s leading courseware on palliative care for health care organizations and professionals.
With a suite of over 20 interprofessional courses, LEAP equips a diverse range of frontline health care professionals with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to help provide palliative care to patients and families facing life-limiting illnesses with more timely and effective palliative care.
Partnering to build palliative care capacity
Pallium works closely with over 200 partners, health systems, and supporters to advance the integration of palliative care into Canadian communities and the health care system. Within this spirit of collaboration, they foster a culture change and transform our society into a skilled, informed, and compassionate one with respect to palliative care.
Together, Pallium and its partners are transforming the landscape of palliative care in Canada.
Continuous learning in palliative care
Pallium is committed to supporting health care professionals on their palliative care learning journey. Through a variety of courses, resources, and tools, Pallium provide the necessary support to enhance skills and knowledge for delivering compassionate and effective palliative care.
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Palliative care is everyone's business.
Improving palliative care in Canada is everyone’s business, not just the responsibility of a small number of palliative care specialist physicians and nurses. Every community has the potential to transform our society into a skilled, informed and compassionate one with respect to palliative care. Whether you are a health care organization, health care professional, community leader or influencer, you can help make this happen.
Pallium’s goal is to strengthen Canada’s ability to provide home and community-based palliative care through education and support to health care professionals and family and neighbourhood carers, so that every Canadian who requires palliative care will receive it early, effectively, and compassionately.
We're here to help
Pallium equips health care organizations, health care professionals and community members with the skills and tools to provide better palliative care and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
”Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
World Health Organization
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