End of Life Care Downloads and Supports
Food and Fluids at the End of Life
Advance Care Planning – a process of thinking about and sharing your wishes for future health and personal care. This website has resources to help you and your loved ones create an advance care plan.
North Simcoe Muskoka Palliative Care Network – an organization that links you to the right services and supports that you need locally. The Network has a Hospice Palliative Care Consultant team with special skills in pain and symptom management who can help address your needs. (can’t access pdf. security)
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
Virtual Hospice – online information and support on palliative and end-of-life care, loss and grief
North Simcoe Muskoka Palliative Care Network – resources for HCPs (can’t access link. security)
Advanced care planning, pain and symptom management, and guidelines for health care professionals.
Hospice – hospices in our LHIN have bereavement/program coordinators who can tell them about the bereavement counselling the offer. Call 211 or 310-2222 (NSM Healthline) for hospices near you.
Gilda’s Club – Gilda’s Club Simcoe Muskoka, A FREE cancer support community, providing social and emotional support to all whose lives have been impacted by cancer.
705-726-5199 or www.gildasclubsimcoemuskoka.org
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – for patients or family members who have an EAP through their or their spouse’s employer – free, confidential counselling
Family Health Team (FHT) – ask family doctor for a referral to the FHT’s social worker
Clergy
Catholic Family Services – walk-in counselling clinics in Barrie, Orillia, Midland, Collingwood, Bracebridge, Alliston and Bradford: https://cfssc.ca/
Bereaved Families of Ontario – www.bereavedfamilies.net
Funeral homes – occasionally offer bereavement support
Telecare Distress Line of Greater Simcoe – (705)325-9534 or (705)726-7922
310-COPE (310-2673) * Do not dial an area code
confidential 24 hour crisis telephone response service. Support and information; referral to other services. Call if you are feeling depressed, feelings of rage; have intense feelings of distress, loneliness, anxiety or fear; are feeling suicidal; are worried that you have nowhere to go; have family difficulties
24 hr. Mental Health Crisis Line – 705-728-5044 or 1-888-893-8333
Private Practice Therapists – can search for therapists doing grief counselling at http://www.findasocialworker.ca/ON/en/default.asp
Hospice – hospices in our LHIN have bereavement/program coordinators who can tell them about the bereavement counselling the offer. Call 211 or 310-2222 (NSM Healthline) for hospices near you.
Gilda’s Club – Gilda’s Club Simcoe Muskoka, A FREE cancer support community, providing social and emotional support to all whose lives have been impacted by cancer.
705-726-5199 or www.gildasclubsimcoemuskoka.org
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – for patients or family members who have an EAP through their or their spouse’s employer – free, confidential counselling
Family Health Team (FHT) – ask family doctor for a referral to the FHT’s social worker
Clergy
Catholic Family Services – walk-in counselling clinics in Barrie, Orillia, Midland, Collingwood, Bracebridge, Alliston and Bradford: https://cfssc.ca/
Bereaved Families of Ontario – www.bereavedfamilies.net
Funeral homes – occasionally offer bereavement support
Telecare Distress Line of Greater Simcoe – (705)325-9534 or (705)726-7922
310-COPE (310-2673) * Do not dial an area code
confidential 24 hour crisis telephone response service. Support and information; referral to other services. Call if you are feeling depressed, feelings of rage; have intense feelings of distress, loneliness, anxiety or fear; are feeling suicidal; are worried that you have nowhere to go; have family difficulties
24 hr. Mental Health Crisis Line – 705-728-5044 or 1-888-893-8333
Private Practice Therapists – can search for therapists doing grief counselling at http://www.findasocialworker.ca/ON/en/default.asp
Seasons Centre for Grieving Children – bereavement support for kids www.grievingchildren.com
Rainbows – helping children and teens grieve and grow after loss www.rainbows.ca
kidshelpphone.ca or 1-800-668-6868