Pallium Foundation of Canada / La fondation Pallium du Canada
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Mission Statement
Pallium Canada's charitable mission is to advance palliative care by providing practical and evidence-based solutions to improve the quality and accessibility of care. Pallium's vision is that palliative care is everyone's business. For over two decades, Pallium has been building healthcare and community capacity through the Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) courseware and, more recently, the Palliative Care ECHO Project, comprised of virtual communities of healthcare providers, community leaders, and subject matter experts. Pallium is a leader in research and is producing the first-ever Canadian Atlas of Palliative Care, with Ottawa being one of the pilot sites. As healthcare is just one part of the equation, Pallium created the Care Connections Program that includes LEAP Carer, the Atlas CareMap program, and the Compassionate Workplace Campaign to support family caregivers in the community and at their place of work.
About This Cause
Pallium's primary goal is to accelerate the spread and scale of LEAP education and the Care Connections Programs to ensure that more seniors and their families have timelier, more effective, and more compassionate care. The term 'palliative' is often misunderstood as the last weeks or days of life; however, a 'palliative care approach' should begin as soon as someone receives a diagnosis in conjunction with other treatment plans and caregiver support in various settings. One of the objectives of LEAP is to empower all frontline healthcare providers (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, paramedics, and allied healthcare professionals) to identify seniors with palliative care needs early in the illness trajectory, engage in timely goals of care discussions, screen for physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs, and begin to address these. The direct benefit is to improve a senior's quality of life, alleviate symptoms, reduce emergency and hospital stays, increase alignment between care delivered and preferences, and is even effective for any older person having general discomfort and disability later in life. Pallium has recently developed several LEAP specialty courses that support frontline healthcare providers caring for the elderly, including LEAP Long-Term Care, LEAP Home Care, and LEAP Personal Support Worker. Pallium's Care Connection Program builds awareness and understanding of the needs of family caregivers, decreases the stigma and isolation associated with these experiences, and provides practical support. LEAP Carers is an online, self-learning course that provides family caregivers with information and resources to help them better provide care. The interactive modules focus on the 'functional' aspect of being a caregiver, including understanding their role, navigating the health care system, providing personal care with dignity, medication management, and caregiver communication and self-care strategies. The Atlas CareMap tools create a simple visual diagram (either digitally or on paper) of all the people involved in supporting a family caregiver's care for their loved one. It is designed to visualize and easily understand the many different connections and, more importantly, identify the critical gaps in support that can lead to caregiver burnout. The Atlas CareMap Toolkit has a user-friendly guide for caregivers to learn how to create a care map and then how to share it. In addition, the Atlas CareMap Community Workshop Toolkit was created as a resource for community organizations, such as those serving seniors, who would like to run a CareMap workshop with a coordinator's guide, templates, presentations, and more. Finally, the Compassionate Workplace Campaign has tools and resources for employers to create a more compassionate workplace environment when employees are caregiving or grieving.