Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association

Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association promotes and supports comprehensive and quality hospice palliative care in Alberta. We raise public and political awareness of hospice palliative care by:

• Highlighting news and palliative care events through our social media, newsletter and website
• Engaging with local media to keep palliative care in the news
• Liaising with the provincial government to make recommendations

We help Albertans access good quality hospice palliative care services by:

• Providing and maintaining a directory of Alberta-wide palliative care services
• Taking phone calls and signposting people int he right direction

We support professionals and volunteers to provide good quality hospice palliative care by:

• Running annual province-wide educational roadshows for professionals and volunteers
• Facilitating educational scholarships for volunteers and an award for unpaid caregivers
• Uniting all the grass root hospice groups annually to learn and share experiences at our Imagine conference with around 30 local groups represented each year