In this seminar, researchers will share their experiences of conducting collaborative research within Canada and in both North America and Europe. The seminar will provide great opportunities to connect, share experiences and discuss across cross-cultural differences related to traditions and experiences with palliative care.
Panel Speakers: Stein Kaasa, Gary Rodin, and Rebecca Wong
Invited Speakers: Robin Fainsinger, Camilla Zimmermann, Per Sjøgren,Jon Håvard...
Here is Dr. Scott Kim, psychiatrist and bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), presenting his research on medical assisted death in patients with non-terminal conditions and psychiatric disorders in the Netherlands. The research adds empirical evidence to the debate about assisted dying, particularly concerning vulnerable persons or people with mental health issues.
Dr. Kim was the featured speaker at the Open Conversation about Assisted Dying, an event hosted by GIPPEC along with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and...
Echoing the view of Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association, GIPPEC urges the public not to confuse assisted dying with palliative care.
While it's true that palliative care advocates believe in choices - people need to know their end-of-life options, and they need to know them ahead of time, having choices does not only mean choosing whether to receive assisted death or not. Assisted dying is simply one of the many choices people...
On May 5th, 2016, Dr. Jennifer Gibson provided a testimony at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on the proposed legislation of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
In her testimony, Dr. Gibson discusses how the legislation excludes several groups from accessing MAID, namely, mature minors, competent persons enduring intolerable suffering due to mental illness, and competent persons seeking to make an advanced request for MAID.
Opponents to this view have argued that these exclusions are necessary to protect vulnerable persons....
On the National Nurses Week in Canada, our GIPPEC fellow, Shan Mohammed, RN, PhD, discusses the role of nursing in palliative care.
Congrats to Anja Mehnert on receiving an award for clinical research at the German Cancer Congress. It is the first of its kind to go to a mental health researcher.
On Feb 20, the Global Institute Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care, the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and the Faculty of Law, of the University of Toronto hosted the “Conversation on Physician Assisted Dying". The event is organized to stimulate discussion about some of the challenges in implementing Physician Assisted Dying (PAD) in Canada.
The featured speaker of the event, Dr. Scott Kim, a psychiatrist-bioethicist of the University of Michigan and the U.S. National Institutes of Health,...
GIPPEC has launched its educational platform at Gippeclearn.org. Currently, it is hosting a training module on conducting the Quality of Death and Dying Questionnaire and the Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) Workshop.
More educational modules are underway. Stay tuned!
GIPPEC is working with our partners, Dr. Faith Mwangi Powell and Richard Powell, on a research project, measuring the quality of death and dying in the Kenyan hospices. Here we are filming to create elearning modules for training researchers to administer the questionnaire and collect data for the research.
As part of our tribute to David Bowie, we did a series of interviews with Dr. Gary Rodin, asking him questions about terminal illness, creativity, advance care planning, and post-traumatic growth. In this video, he talked about advance care planning and the sense of control in the following.
Question: Anne Neumann, author of The Good Death, argues that the well-orchestrated death of David Bowie reflects a larger trend of baby boomers wanting to have more control over their lives, opting...