Listen to our Speak Up Podcast
Advance Care Planning in Canada started a new podcast which can be listened to on the Speak Up website, Spotify, and iTunes. The Speak Up Podcast invites guest speakers every episode to talk about various Advance Care Planning topics and share their experience. The first episode of the Speak Up Podcast is about the “what […]ACPAnywhere Campaign – #ACPAnywhere
Advance Care Planning conversations are not limited to Canada. These conversations can happen at any time, with anyone, anywhere in the world. Living in a digital age, it is even easier to have the conversation with people around the world, but very few do. Whether you have a grandparent living in Asia, a sister living […]Advance Care Planning releases a video with Walter Gretzky and his family
The SpeakUp initiative has released a video with Walter Gretzky and his family to promote advance care planning in Canada. In this short video, we see a conversation between Walter Gretzky, his daughter Kim, and grandson Nathan. Walter talks about his experience with Advance Care Planning and how it helped his family members know about his […]Health Canada funds a capacity building project on Advance Care Planning led by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Health Canada funds a capacity building project on Advance Care Planning led by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association May 10, 2019 (Ottawa, Ontario). The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) is proud to announce that the national ‘Speak Up’ Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Canada initiative has received $1.9 million over three years for […]A Better Connected and Supported Culture: Learnings from the ACP Stream of the 2018 Learning Institute
The 2018 CHPCA Learning Institute ran from June 14-16, 2018 in Ottawa. For the first time in the Learning Institute’s history, one of the streams of the institute was dedicated to ACP. The stream had a primary focus on partnership building, as suggested by the title: “ACP in Canada: Engaging in this Movement as Clinicians […]
