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Featured Videos

Indigenous Voices: Ceremony, Tradition and Spirituality (21:41)
Indigenous Voices: Caring for the Patient and Family (16:50)
Indigenous Voices: Walking Along Side for a Good Death (21:22)
Indigenous Voices: Honouring Our Loss and Grief (23:07)

Print materials

Coming full circle: Planning for your care
Coming full circle: Planning for your care - Large Print
La planification de vos soins
La planification de vos soins Gros caractères
Honouring wishes
Grief and letting go
Care at home and away
Compassionate caring
What to expect
Making memories
Helping you feel better
What is palliative care

Traditions, Rituals and Spirituality

Improving care away from home (1:32)
Inuit perspectives on death and dying (1:50)

Expectations of Care

An end to hunger and thirst (0:51)
What palliative care will mean for you (1:40)

Care for the Patient and Family

Improving care away from home (1:32)
An end to hunger and thirst (0:51)
The family is in the dark (1:26)
What palliative care will mean for you (1:40)
I didn't know what it meant (1:33)
Respecting your wishes (0:48)
Care for the caregiver (1:18)
A calm, peaceful feeling (0:58)
A job for everyone (1:25)
It was the right thing to do (2:00)
My rock (1:53)
Inuit perspectives on death and dying (1:50)
Advance care planning (0:57)
Getting on the same page (1:41)
Important conversations with my patients (1:43)
How much to share? (0:45)

Emotions and Support

Care for the caregiver (1:18)
A job for everyone (1:25)
It was the right thing to do (2:00)
My rock (1:53)
Getting on the same page (1:41)
Important conversations with my patients (1:43)

Talking About Illness

Comfort in my own language (2:15)
Respecting your wishes (0:48)
The worst conversation (1:57)
Care in your own language (0:43)
Take notes and ask questions (1:06)
Advance care planning (0:57)
Getting on the same page (1:41)
How much to share? (0:45)

After Death and Ceremonies

Living with grief (1:28)
Inuit perspectives on death and dying (1:50)
Surrounded by love (1:28)
Grief and celebration (0:53)

New Videos

The benefits of being cared for by your own people (1:06)
Loss of traditional medicine (1:56)
Teaching family about illness (1:15)
Understanding medical language (1:35)
What is a good death? (0:34)
Learning to provide care (2:46)
The importance of traditional foods (1:08)
Common language is a comfort (1:54)
Educating healthcare providers about culture, language and belief (2:03)
"Home" can have two meanings (1:05)
Keeping Elders in community (2:29)
Dying in a foreign place (1:16)
Financial impacts of long stays away from home for care (3:35)
Traditional food or broth brings comfort and healing (2:04)
Family roles (5:20)
The choice to die at home must be made when travel is still possible (1:11)
Choosing care away from home (2:11)
Comfort with caregiving roles (1:07)
The decision to provide care at home can change (1:57)
Over simplifying langauge can be condescending (1:37)
Clear communication counteracts fear based decision making. (1:06)
There should be more support for caregivers and escorts (1:43)
When my sister was diagnosed with a brain tumour (2:50)
Our blood is the same colour (0:26)
It's so important for people to learn about our history and culture (3:13)
My wish for healthcare in Nunavut (0:58)
Cultural roles and nursing: Speaking with Elders (2:09)
Traditional ways of communicating changed after colonization (1:54)
Speaking softly and calmly when delivering bad news (1:07)
People panic when they hear the word "palliative" (1:24)
Many people in the North mistrust the medical system (1:48)
When a diagnosis is overwhelming (1:01)
Lost in translation: There is no word for cancer (1:19)
Interpreters can lead to misunderstanding (1:21)
When Elders leave the comunity for care they often don't return (1:20)
Travelling for care (1:50)
Seeing a psychologist helped me a lot (2:02)
An important gift from my son (1:46)
Supporting others going through a similar experience (1:17)
Being a hunter taught me what it meant to be strong (0:45)
My relationship with my husband is stronger (0:57)
Finding my strength again (2:04)
Finding laughter and humour in difficult situatiions (1:36)
Having music by my side helped me (1:09)
I'm a survivor (1:09)
I was afraid I wouldn't survive (1:30)
Finacial stress: trying work while in treatment (0:40)
It was often difficult to understand everything I was being told (1:15)
Travelling for care: greater support and organization is needed (2:14)
Traditional food was important to my healing (1:20)
The support of my family and my community made me strong (2:07)
Faciial expressions when communicating in Inuktitut (0:37)
My brain cancer diagnosis (1:33)
It is very frightening to be told that you have cancer (1:24)
There was no one to talk to when I returned to my community (1:15)
I could pray and worship at the boarding house chapel (1:00)
Attending events in Ottawa helped to take my mind off my illness (1:34)
What gave me hope and strength (0:38)
How stress and distance affect communication (1:24)
Missing my country food (1:13)
Missing my husband (1:13)
The challenges of living away from community for care (2:40)
Thinking about end of life wishes now, prepares us for the future (1:10)
Living in the north is about community (1:35)
Discharge planning in northern communities (0:47)
Discharge planning and dialysis (1:42)
Proper discharge planning is crucial (1:31)
More supports are needed (1:24)
Challenges to end of life treatment in the North (2:01)
Change is coming with a new generation (2:22)
Death by suicide and grief and connections with colonialism and intergenerational trauma (4:10)
If possible, keep doing things that you love (0:41)
When my time comes I want to be buried in Nuajaat (1:03)
Choosing community over treatment (1:45)
"Nanilavut" (Let's Find Them): A program to find where loved ones who travelled south for care are buried (1:26)
Imagine leaving your home and livelihood for 6 months (1:52)
The cost and isolation of traveling for care is a burden (1:48)
My daughter's cancer journey (9:21)
Northern patients and family need support in urban settings (0:48)
Why some families may not want a translator (1:54)
Embracing a land-based approach (1:07)
Being displaced from your community for healthcare (1:45)
Supplying sewing supplies to patients and families (1:24)
Ask your doctors for more explanations (1:07)
Travel escorts can support each other (0:56)
Caring for my sister made me a stronger person (6:48)
My Mother's death: Dying away from family (5:44)
Supporting our young people today (2:37)
We borrow this life for a short time and must live in harmony (1:54)
Closeness of family is important at end of life (1:33)
Love is an important word in our culture (1:24)
Inuit naming traditions (1:51)
An Inuit-focused home for Elders with dementia and Alzheimers (6:15)
It's important to be able to ask our doctors any questions that we have (2:36)
Sharing the Inuit language (2:49)
I believe in the afterlife (1:48)
Saying comforting words to a loved one at death (2:58)
Returning home when there is no more treatment available (3:33)
Caring for cancer patients (3:06)
We lost our connectino to shamanism (1:25)
As Inuit we are resilient people (3:41)
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