Being a family caregiver can be as challenging as it is rewarding. If you are a family caregiver looking after someone with a chronic illness, please join us for this series of informative conversations. The Montreal Institute for Palliative Care professional team members will lead each session. Our team has a wide range of expertise in caring with compassion, supporting family members, and managing illness.
This series is an excellent forum to learn, exchange ideas, and connect with others who may have caregiving stories that resonate with your own.
These sessions are all FREE and will be conducted interactively online
Next session
Navigating the Healthcare System: Challenges and Support
Presented by Melissa Street, Nurse Clinician
Director of the Support Program for the Autonomy of Seniors
CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île de Montréal
thursday, december 5, 2024 | 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
This talk will address the various challenges and support services of our Quebec Health Care System.
We will highlight strategies to better understand and navigate our healthcare system.
She will discuss the healthcare resources available to us and how to access them.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For any questions, contact Nicole Lapointe: nlapointe@tdpcr.ca
Please note that all sessions will be offered in English.
The presenters are bilingual and will be able to answer all questions in French.
ALL SESSIONS
Are you interested in learning about Advance Care Planning? Did you know that family members are increasingly caring for chronically ill loved ones at home? This may raise concerns and questions related to what happens as health starts to decline.
Many Canadians have yet to hear of advance care planning (ACP). Advanced care planning is a process of reflecting on and communicating your wishes for end-of-life care with your family, close friends and health care team.
This interactive session will focus on what ACP is, how to introduce the subject, how to make difficult decisions and will also be an opportunity for you to ask us questions.
This talk will address the various challenges and support services of our Quebec Health Care System. We will highlight strategies to better understand and navigate our healthcare system. She will discuss the healthcare resources available to us and how to access them.
Family members are increasingly caring for chronically ill people at home. This care may sometimes consist of both physical and emotional challenges. As a result, it is not surprising that family caregivers often experience distress related to their experiences. They continue to prioritize their loved one, often at a cost to their physical and mental health. It becomes difficult to recognize the need for self-care and the need to respect those needs.
This interactive session will focus on recognizing when caring for yourself becomes critical and will address the challenges of caring for someone while balancing care for yourself.
The transition from active care to palliative care can be challenging for family members. This means that how they care for their loved one changes. The symptoms they have to manage can increase and become harder to manage. They may not always understand these changes, and the care involved can be overwhelming. This talk will address the main symptoms family caregivers manage at home and suggest how to manage them. It will also address what to do when faced with symptoms that are difficult to manage and who to reach out to and when to do so.
This interactive session will focus on some of the important psychosocial implications of taking on the responsibility of symptom management in the role of a family caregiver and provide an opportunity for you to share your experience.
When a family member is unwell, the caregiver is often witness to multiple changes in the well-being, functional status, and overall health of their loved one. When the illness is chronic and progresses, there are many losses that both the patient and their caregivers must cope with. Grief can be experienced along the entire illness trajectory, highlighting that a family caregiver’s mood needs to be constantly assessed. In addition, bereavement can be complicated after a loved one passes away as the family caregiver tries to adapt to the loss of the patient, their role, and the structure and routine caregiving provided. This interactive session will focus on some possible losses, the grieving of those losses, and how to care for oneself during bereavement.