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01/25/2026

Planning ahead is one of the kindest gifts you can give the people who love you. It is not about expecting the worst — it is about making things gentler when life gets hard.

Substitute Decision Maker (SDM)
A Substitute Decision Maker is someone you choose to make personal and health care decisions if you are unable to speak for yourself. This person helps ensure your values, beliefs, and wishes guide your care. An SDM may be asked to make decisions about medical treatment, where you receive care, or end-of-life preferences.

Power of Attorney (POA)
A Power of Attorney allows you to appoint someone to manage your financial and legal matters if you cannot do so yourself. There are two common types:

General Power of Attorney
This is often used for a specific time or purpose, such as travel or short-term illness. It ends if you become mentally incapable.

Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA)
An Enduring Power of Attorney continues if you become mentally incapable. This ensures bills are paid, finances are managed, and property is looked after by someone you trust. Without an EPOA, families may face lengthy, costly legal steps during an already stressful time.

Executor of Your Will
An Executor is the person who carries out your wishes after you pass away. They handle your estate, pay debts, distribute assets, and make sure everything is done according to your instructions.

Why these choices matter
Selecting a Substitute Decision Maker, Power of Attorney, and Executor helps ensure your care, finances, and wishes are guided by trust and compassion. Without these plans in place, families can face uncertainty, delays, and emotional strain.

The Prince George Hospice is here to help you have these conversations with care, clarity, and support. You do not have to navigate planning alone.

01/23/2026

When someone living with dementia goes missing, every minute feels heavy. Panic sets in fast — and that’s completely understandable. Here are a few gentle, practical steps that can truly help when searching for a lost loved one with dementia.

First, call for help early. If someone with dementia is missing, contact local police right away. There is no waiting period, and early action makes a real difference.

Start close to home. Many people with dementia are found within a short distance, often walking familiar routes — around their own street, a favourite walking path, or a place they once visited often.

Think comfort, not logic. A person with dementia may not recognize danger or ask for help. Look for places that feel safe or familiar to them — porches, sheds, parks, bus shelters, churches, or even old workplaces.

Share clear details. Recent photos, what they were wearing, and any habits or routines can help searchers focus quickly. Even small details matter.

Use calm, familiar language. If you see them, approach gently. Use their name, keep your voice soft, and avoid arguing or correcting. Reassurance goes a long way.

Lean on your community. Neighbours, local businesses, transit drivers, and walkers can all be extra eyes. People want to help — sometimes they just need to know how.

Most of all, remember this: getting lost is not a failure. Dementia changes how the brain understands place and time. Compassion, patience, and quick action are what matter most.

Prince George Hospice is here to support families through every stage of illness, caregiving, and uncertainty. You are not alone — even on the hardest days.

01/23/2026

🧧✨ Celebrate Joy, Culture & Community This Lunar New Year ✨🧧

Join us February 20, 2026, at the Roll-A-Dome for a licensed Chinese New Year Casino Night in support of the Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society (PGHPCS).

Enjoy an evening of entertainment, dinner, dancing, and casino-style fun—while coming together to support programs that promote comfort, connection, and wellness for the North.

🎟 $125 per ticket | $1,000 per table of 10
🎫 Tickets available in person at the Hospice office or online at https://bit.ly/CNYPGH26

💛 All donations and funds raised directly support PGHPCS

01/22/2026

Hospice has always known something nurses learn early on:
care isn’t defined by cure. It’s defined by presence.

Avril Briggs’ story helps explain why nurses have been so central to hospice care in Prince George.

Avril Briggs is well known in the community as the wife of educator and school principal James Arthur Briggs. She and Jim emigrated from England to Canada in 1965 and made Prince George their home for decades, raising their family and becoming deeply rooted in local life.

Avril was also a nurse — a role that placed her close to people facing serious illness, difficult decisions, and loss. Nurses understand early that care doesn’t stop when treatment does. That perspective naturally leads to hospice.

On November 5, 1994, the Prince George Citizen photographed Avril outside the Prince George Rotary Hospice House on Clapperton Street. The caption was simple and honest: Avril Briggs and other members of the Prince George Hospice Society were preparing to spend many hours comforting the terminally ill.

Avril also supported hospice through community fundraising, including the Prince George Hospice Society Antique Fair, where she and Jim helped appraise items brought in by the public. These efforts helped sustain hospice care in its early years.

Nurses have always helped define hospice because they already understand what it means to stay, to listen, and to care when nothing can be fixed.

Avril Briggs was one of those people.

This is how Prince George Hospice was built — quietly, steadily, and with compassion that showed up when it mattered most.

Source: Prince George Citizen, early 1990s and November 5, 1994. Photos by Brent Braaten and Chuck Nisbett.

01/22/2026

2nd 50/50 Draw $250,000 Jackpot!!!

01/21/2026

Music has a way of finding us — even when words fall short. 🎵

In hospice care, music therapy offers gentle moments of comfort, connection, and calm. A familiar song can ease anxiety, help manage pain, spark long-held memories, or simply bring a sense of peace to a difficult day.

Music therapy is always personal. Certified music therapists take time to understand each person’s needs, preferences, and life experiences, using music in ways that feel safe, meaningful, and supportive.

Sometimes it’s a favourite tune.
Sometimes it’s a shared memory.
Sometimes it’s just a quiet moment that feels a little lighter.

At Prince George Hospice, we believe these moments matter. We are here to help support comfort, dignity, and quality of life — for patients and for the families who love them.

01/21/2026

January 20, 2012 is a date many families in Northern BC will never forget.

On that winter day in Burns Lake, two workers went to work like they always did — and they never came home.

For their families, life split into a before and an after.

For children especially, this kind of loss is hard to understand. A parent leaves in the morning with a lunch pail and a wave goodbye. Supper is expected. Stories are expected. A hug goodnight is expected. And then… nothing follows the plan their heart was counting on.

Grief doesn’t arrive neatly. It arrives in questions.
Why didn’t Mom come home?
When is Dad walking through the door?
Did I do something wrong?

At Prince George Hospice, we walk alongside families living inside those unanswered moments — helping them make sense of a world that suddenly feels unsafe, unfair, and far too quiet. We support children, parents, partners, and loved ones as they learn to carry loss while still holding onto love.

Today, we remember the two who didn’t come home.
We honour their families.
And we hold space for every child who learned, far too early, that goodbye can come without warning.

If you or someone you love is walking through grief — you do not have to do it alone. We are here to help.

01/20/2026

🧧✨ SAVE THE DATE – LUNAR NEW YEAR 2026 ✨🧧

Celebrate joy, culture, and community at our Lunar New Year Casino Night in support of PG Hospice.
Enjoy an evening of entertainment, dinner, dancing, and casino-style fun—rooted in the happiness and generosity of Lunar New Year traditions.

📅 February 20, 2026
📍 The Roll-A-Dome
🎟 Tickets on sale soon

Mark your calendar and get ready to welcome the New Year with joy and purpose.

01/19/2026

Dementia is often associated with aging, but in rare cases it can affect children, teens, and young adults as well.

When dementia occurs earlier in life, it is usually linked to genetic or neurological conditions that affect how the brain functions or develops. These conditions can cause a gradual loss of abilities such as memory, speech, movement, learning, or vision. Unlike age-related dementia, youth-onset dementia is not caused by lifestyle, parenting, or personal choices.

Because it is rare and not widely understood, families living with youth-onset dementia often face stigma, misunderstanding, or isolation. Many spend years seeking answers before receiving a diagnosis, all while coping with profound changes in their loved one’s abilities and needs.

If you know someone whose child, sibling, or family member is living with dementia at a young age, compassion matters. Avoid assumptions. Avoid judgement. And remember that this journey is already incredibly heavy for those living it.

Hospice and palliative care can play an important role at any age — offering comfort, guidance, emotional support, and dignity, not just at end of life but throughout the illness.

At Prince George Hospice, we are here to help. We support individuals and families facing serious illness with care, understanding, and compassion, every step of the way.

Because dementia does not discriminate by age — and neither should our empathy.

01/19/2026

It stands for “requiescat in pace,” or “may they rest in peace.” It started appearing on Christian graves around the 8th century, especially in Europe, as a short prayer rather than a statement.
By the 18th and 19th centuries, it was common across Catholic and Anglican burial traditions, and eventually it slipped into everyday language.
In older graves you’ll sometimes see variations like RIPD (rest in peace, dear) or simply “Requiescat,”

01/18/2026

Sometimes it’s not the recipe that’s missing — it’s the hands that made it. 💛

Many of us carry the memory of a loved one through food. A stew, a pie, a soup, a loaf of bread… something they made that never quite tastes the same when we try to recreate it.

Let’s help each other out.

Tell us:
What is one dish your loved one cooked that you just can’t get right — no matter how hard you try?

And if you know the secret to making something like “Grandma’s soup” or “Dad’s roast” finally taste right, share your advice below. A tip, a trick, a memory — all are welcome.

Because sometimes healing happens over a shared recipe, and sometimes comfort comes from knowing you’re not the only one missing that flavour. 🍲💞

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3089 Clapperton Street
Prince George, BC
V2L5N4

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
Friday	8am - 4pm

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+12505632551

Website

http://www.pghpcs.ca/

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The Prince George Hospice Society

The Prince George Hospice Society was founded in 1987 after a need for quality, comfortable End of Life Care was realized. Upon establishment, the Society instituted a program to provide support to the terminally ill by matching volunteers with the referred patient and their family.

In 1993, a generous donation from the Downtown Rotary Club of Prince George allowed the Society to purchase a house on Clapperon Street, which, after receiving a grant from the government, opened for admissions in May 1995 as the Hospice House of Prince George. With the generous help of Integris Credit Union the adjacent property was purchased in 1999, and the BC 2000 program along with the Vancouver Foundation provided funds to renovate the house into the Bereavement Center.

In 2009, the Prince George Hospice House was expanded to 10 beds, with an increase in size to 10,000 square feet. The Hospice Society property includes the Guest accommodating Hospice House and the administrative Forest Expo House.

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