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Our ePAC collaborative is incredibly grateful to have been one of eight grant recipients selected by the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller Victoria Commandery (Victoria Commandery).

Post-doctoral fellows Tara Horrill and Vidhi Thakkar and PhD student Amber Bourgeois win prestigious awards.

This new publication evaluates the challenges of embedding palliative approaches to care into long-term care.

This new publication highlights the experiences of care aides and nursing professionals in the provision of palliative approaches to care in long-term care.

Kelli Stajduhar presents as part of Island Health's Five Days in May.

You can now watch a YouTube video of Meager & Piecemeal: How to improve Canada's home care services. What is the current state of home care, here in Canada, and around the world? How can we learn, improve, and move forward while in a state of constant crises, in the midst of a global pandemic?

In recognition of her substantial contributions and sustained impact on nursing, Kelli Stajduhar was named as a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Nursing.

Kelli Stajduhar and Denise Cloutier have a blunt conversation about one of our greatest fears about dying: being alone.

UVic News does a convocation profile on Nursing grad Sydney Hofmeyr, an ePAC practicum student who hosted the "Before I Die..." art installation.

PACACH's Ashley Mollison is one of four UVic researchers named Vanier Canada Graduate Scholars in an annual competition, second PACACH graduate student to receive award in two years.

UVic doctoral student, Reanne Booker, Oncology and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner is a 2019 recipient of the Vanier Doctoral Fellowship award for her research on the early integration of palliative care with bone marrow transplant patients.

Working with inner city palliative care teams in three Canadian cities (Victoria, Calgary and Toronto), EiPC's Kelli Stajduhar, a nursing professor and research affiliate with UVic’s Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, will lead a new study that aims to expand our understanding of the non-traditional caregiver experience by exploring who provides palliative care, what types of supports they provide, where care usually happens, and the impacts on caregivers.

Ashley Mollison and Kara Whitlock, on behalf of the ePAC collaborative, write about the development of new community-informed advanced care planning (ACP) tools.

ePAC's Kelli Stajduhar and Erin Donald write about how COVID-19 could impact socially disadvantaged communities, and what that means for their palliative care.

Death may be the great equalizer, but access to good end-of-life care is rarely equitable. A new mobile palliative care program is addressing that imbalance by providing care and dignity to people in Victoria with life-limiting illnesses who are homeless and living in poverty. The Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT)—launched Sept. 19—is built upon lessons learned from a three-year study led by UVic palliative care researcher Kelli Stajduhar, lead investigator of the Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care program with the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health and the School of Nursing.

NURS456 practicum students Sydney Hofmeyr & Rowen Harris write about the launch of the The Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) on the ePAC blog.