It’s never easy to talk about end-of-life care preferences – whether they be for ourselves, a loved one or someone in our care. But understanding what matters most as we journey to the end of our lives is so important.
Join us for a gentle and impactful conversation about palliative care, advance care planning and the path to a medically assisted death.
Chapters
- What is palliative care? 00:50
- How do patients enter end-of-life care? 6:28
- Advance care planning 10:19
- Medical Assistance in Dying 19:18
- Home support 30:25
- Hospice care 31:58
- Culturally safe conversations about end-of-life care 35:38
- Who touched your heart? 38:09
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Guest bios
Dr. Andrew Collins is the regional medical director and regional department head for palliative medicine within Fraser Health. He has been providing end-of-life care to patients and their identified family members since 2016.
Tammy Dyson has been Fraser Health’s regional lead for the Medical Assistance in Dying program (MAiD) since 2017. She has worked in the field of end-of-life care in the Lower Mainland and the California Bay Area for more than 25 years as a social work clinician, consultant and educator.
About The Heart of It
Every episode, Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of Fraser Health, takes listeners to the heart of health care, where passion, dedication and innovation drive individual, community and planetary health.
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This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the q̓ ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), kʷikʷəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt and Semiahmoo First Nations, treaty lands of the sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) First Nation, and on the home of the Surrey-Delta Métis Association.