In this episode, Amie and Sara chat with Dr. Amit Arya, a palliative care physician. We discuss the long-term care crisis, what palliative care is and isn't, and why home care is so important. Should these areas be clinical placements in nursing school? We touch on quality of life and the power of connection. 

Dr. Amit Arya is a Palliative Care Physician who works in Hospital, Home Care and Long-Term Care Facilities.  He is currently the Palliative Care Lead at Kensington Health in Toronto & serves as Lecturer for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and Assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University.  

Dr. Arya holds multiple leadership roles at the national, provincial and local level, and was awarded the 2020 Award of Excellence in Social Responsibility, from the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.  In 2021, he co-founded Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care, a coalition of over 1000 physicians and researchers advocating for an overhaul of the long-term care system in Ontario.  Through the COVID-19 crisis, he has been featured in the media speaking about LTC on the CBC the National, CTV’s The Social, and TVO’s The Agenda.