Palliative Care

When Dr. Cornelius Woelk, the patient, it provides the final quality of life in rural Manitoba encourages visits, he could spend hours behind the wheel.

He left a phone number in between visits; patients are sometimes visited by the hour, because he and a small group of nurses know that they have the choice of the only concern.

"I want them to have the best quality of life" as long as they live, Woelk said.

"And it's hard to do."

More choices for home care, better education and the national leadership needed to help palliative care physicians in all parts of the country, Woelk said.

A parliamentary committee on Thursday approved a bipartisan Woelk said the system is a patchwork of end of life care should be replaced with a national palliative care strategy.

The Committee could nearly 200-page report recommends that the federal government to create the office of palliative care, which provides care at the end of life is available to all across the country.

Other countries, like Georgia and Poland, a national strategy for end of life care, but not so in Canada, the report said.

This has left some communities to develop creative approaches, such information is toll-free hotline set up by doctors in Vancouver.

"That was one of the workarounds in British Columbia," said Dr. Romayne Gallagher, Director of Palliative Care Providence Health, and Vancouver.

"It's hard to know how many people we would if we called the people."

Those without access to, palliative care can be found in the emergency room if their pain condition cannot be managed properly in the hospital and stayed until the end, says Gallagher.

Research has shown that the majority of Canadians would prefer to die at home, but it is not possible in some parts of the country.

Currently, palliative care up to one-third of Canadians is available, the report said, and sometimes treatment is not uniform in the same city provided.

Limited access to palliative care is not just about around the area near Woelk Winkler, Man. "This is a widespread problem in most provinces, he said.

The Committee believes that the change is not only necessary but also could "save us money in the long run," said Conservative Harold Albrecht, who chaired the committee with Joe Comartin of the NDP.

Not to mention the report, a list of 14 recommendations to prevent opportunities to suicide and violence against the elderly.

Parliamentary party committee also recommends that the federal government, a national secretariat for the prevention of suicide and abuse of the branch under the supervision of the Minister for the elderly, this report recommends the development and implementation of national strategies in the plan.

Recommendations included as part of First Nations, Inuit, Metis and rural communities and asked the federal government to