About Us

Grande Prairie Hospice Palliative Care Society’s Mission

To establish and maintain expert end-of-life care for community members with a terminal illness and to provide support for their families.

We are a voice for the community
We are an ear to public need
We are a hand in action

Vision

Expert end-of-life care will be available when needed in our community.

Beliefs

We believe

all members of our community have the right to expert end-of-life care that aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying;
palliative care helps all those with advanced, progressive, incurable illness to live as well as possible until they die;
the needs of both the patient and family need to be identified and met throughout the last phase of life and into bereavement;
all members of our community should have access to palliative care that includes management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social, spiritual and practical support;
all members of our community who are diagnosed palliative and their families should have access to services and supports that:
- address their physical, emotional, psychological, social and spiritual needs;
- prepare them for the final stages of life and life’s closure;
- help them cope with the loss and grief during the illness and bereavement;
people have the right to die with dignity and support where they choose be whether it is at home, in acute care, or in continuing care or private facilities;
it is the community’s responsibility to care together for people who are palliative by loving and bearing the weight of others;
in living and dying well.

What Hospice Palliative Care Addresses

Hospice palliative care is specialized client-centered end-of-life care. It aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying.

Hospice palliative care supports people living with life-threatening illnesses. It provides care for patients and their loved ones to meet each individual’s

Medical needs
Psychological needs
Social needs
Spiritual needs
Practical needs

Who Provides Hospice Palliative Care

Physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, volunteers, and counsellors work together with friends and family to ease difficult life passages.

Where Care is Provided

Care can be provided at home, in hospitals, in nursing homes or in free standing hospices.

Hospice palliative care considers that dying is an important part of living, and that it is essential to manage pain and other symptoms effectively so that those facing death, and their loved ones, can devote their energies not to fighting physical discomfort, but to embrace the time they have left together.

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