Health and Social Services
Palliative Care Program
Palliative care is a type of care offered to a person who is living with or dying from advanced illness. It seeks to ease patients’ suffering and improve their quality of living and dying. Palliative care honours a person’s choice and responds not only to their physical care, but also to their spiritual, cultural and psychosocial needs, as well as those of their family. It helps them deal with practical issues, and cope with loss and grief throughout the illness and bereavement.
Yukon Palliative Care Program
The Yukon Palliative Care Program provides end-of- life clinical support and consults to a patient’s primary care team to be able to offer individuals and their family the best possible quality of life. Palliative care throughout the Yukon is not limited to one location, but can be provided in a variety of care settings including Whitehorse General Hospital, Copper Ridge Place, Macaulay Lodge, MacDonald Lodge, Thompson Centre and in a person’s home.
Yukon Palliative Care Program services include:
- • Physical, psychosocial and spiritual assessments as appropriate;
• Pain and symptom management including intractable symptoms;
• Complex care situations;
• Discharge planning support; in particular to the communities;
• Public and professional training and education; and
• Supporting issues of loss, grief and bereavement in all Yukon communities. .
The Palliative Care Team
Team members include: Program Manager, Palliative Care Physician, Registered Nurse, Social Worker and Education and Community Liaison Coordinator.
Palliative Care Program
Phone: 867-456-6807
Toll free (in Yukon): 1-800-661-0408 ext. 6807
Location: 109 Copper Road
Mailing Address:
Palliative Care Program
Government of Yukon
Box 2703
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 2C6
