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Award-Winning Films: 2022 #YODOContest
Hospice Waterloo Region (HWR) partnered with the Grand River Film Festival (GRFF) in 2022 for the 2nd annual short-film competition — You Only Die Once: #YODOContest. This short film contest calls on filmmakers and storytellers to focus on death as a part of...
Connecting With Our Indigenous Community
Here at Hospice of Waterloo Region we have been so grateful for opportunities to build new and existing relationships with our community, and in particular those with our Indigenous community. We have been fortunate to have wonderful relationships and partners that...
Honouring Our Volunteers
We are thrilled to be celebrating volunteers who have been with Hospice of Waterloo Region for 20, 15, 10 and 5 years. Volunteers at Hospice support clients with life-threatening illness, by providing social, emotional and practical supports. Our volunteers may also...
Supporting the LGBTQ2+ Community
Hospice Waterloo Region is proud to support Pride Month Hospice Waterloo Region (HWR) is proud to support members of the LGBTQ2+ community with programs delivered through specially trained staff and volunteers that ensure proper end of life supports for Rainbow...
Bereavement Support
Karen's family share their story...A terminal diagnosis can be devastating for a family, and requires much support. Karen, a long-time gardening volunteer with Hospice Waterloo Region, and her family treasured the final days they spent with her at hospice. Alan, her...
Being a Palliative Care Nurse
In order to give care, we need to take care...I feel that being a palliative care nurse has made me a better person. I’m not referring to what some well-meaning people suggest when they say, “it takes a special person” to work in palliative care. While I’ve had the...
Remembering Loved Ones on Special Days
Coping With Grief on Mother's Day and Father's DayHolidays and special days can be challenging and stressful, especially when grieving the death of a loved one. They stir up memories, evoke powerful feelings and emotions, and can leave us feeling very disoriented....
Caring Together Newsletter
Caring Together is a special newsletter to thank our valued supporters who make our mission possible...so that we may engage our community to inspire, nurture and comfort the human spirit in life, death and bereavement. In the Spring 2022 issue, we share a story about...
Resources for Caregivers
April 5th is National Caregiver Day, which is a day to recognize the significant contributions of the caregivers in our lives, who sacrifice their time and energy to support loved ones. The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association calls them "the invisible health...
Congrats to the #YODOContest Winners!
Hospice of Waterloo Region (HWR) is proud to announce the winners of the 2nd annual short film competition — You Only Die Once: #YODOContest. The films will be screened at the Grand River Film Festival (GRFF) starting the week of May 9th. You Only Die Once:...