A comprehensive palliative care service, including a community-based hospice, for children with life limiting illnesses and their families. The pediatric palliative care service provides an extra layer of support to the child and family, along with their primary teams, throughout the child's illness trajectory. Grief and bereavement support for parents and siblings is also provided.
This service provides support to children with life limiting illnesses and their families, including:
- an interdisciplinary team offering support around new diagnoses of life threatening conditions, difficult decision-making, anticipatory grief support and collaboration in comprehensive care planning
- consultative support for care of the dying child in hospital, hospice or community
- Rotary Flames House, a palliative care facility which offers respite, symptom management and end of life care in a home-like setting
- outpatient programming for children and their siblings
- grief support for bereaved parents of children 17 years and younger