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THE WEST ISLAND PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE is proud to sponsor this site. The WIPCR is a hospice located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The West Island Palliative Care Residence is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the care of patients during the final days of a terminal illness. The staff and volunteers of the Residence will provide palliative care for these patients and their families by responding to their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs during the course of the illness and the bereavement period. The Residence will also undertake to promote education and research in palliative care and to act as an example for other communities wishing to organize freestanding palliative residences.
OUR VISION
To provide superior health care to our patients and families while working closely with the community health care network to assure a continuum of services to all patients requiring palliative services, at home, in hospital and at the West Island Palliative Care Residence.
The mission of this website is to:
- Encourage you to support one another while grieving
- Encourage you to educate the adults on how to support young people through grief
- To provide web resources for information and grief
- And to highlight what to do if someone you care about is NOT dealing well with his/her grief.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SITE.
It is impossible for this web site to provide professional therapy, nor is it designed to do that for you. This is not counseling, nor is it any part of a psychological or psychiatric contract. As a reader and participant, you agree to abide by the rules of confidentiality and honor the privacy of other writers. What is written, sung or drawn here, stays here.
We offer self-help, which is each of you helping each other with a monitor answering your questions and/or joining in on chats. We all grieve together, as people who are living through this process of death, loss and letting go. We are not professionals, but rather peers. We can walk beside each other, and comfort each other out of our own experience, but it is not professional advice.
What can you do on a self-help web site like this one?
- Sometimes you can offer support and a listening ear
- Sometimes, you can encourage someone else to bounce back and be resilient even in the face of the death of someone they love
- But you alone are responsible for your own growth and healing
