SevenYears of completing the circle: end-of-life care with Aboriginal families.

This CIHR-funded pilot project puts into action recommendations made in the literature for cross-cultural end of life health care. Results of our previous research supported by a developmental grant from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation consistently suggest that services based on palliative care philosophy are underutilized by ethnic minority patients due to cultural barriers. These findings corroborated our focus group results and suggested that one culture is in particular need of these services: Aboriginal families in Canada. Based on these preliminary findings, this project pursued the following research objectives.