Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is a range of services in addition to palliative care. There is personal care, respite care, in-home respite and institutional respite, Mr. Speaker. We intend to provide those services to the level that is possible with the resources that are available in individual communities. In the communities that my honourable colleague is talking about, that he represents, we have social workers and nurses, we have doctors that come in, we have home support workers that are currently being trained to make them better able to deliver respite care. The larger centres where they have more infrastructure such as Inuvik, have the ability to provide a higher level of palliative care where there are doctors, there is an actual physical hospital and the other services that are needed during that difficult time for families. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 361-14(6): Palliative Care Programs In Small Communities
In the Legislative Assembly on October 2nd, 2003. See this statement in context.
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Question 361-14(6): Palliative Care Programs In Small Communities
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 1st, 2003
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