Volunteers, doctors take palliative care into the community.
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Abstract
The face of palliative care is changing. In Ontario's St. Catharines region there has been a concerted effort to make it more of a community-based procedure. A local college even teaches a 2-year course in palliative care. The trend is expected to continue because Canadians are living longer, and more frail elderly people will be dying at home. Dr. Sandra Hartman, a palliative-care consultant, says physicians interested in palliative care must remember that there is more to it than providing medical assistance. She considers bereavement counseling for the patient's family a necessary part of follow-up preventive care.