Welcome to NSHPCA Conference 2025
The NSHPCA 2025 Conference brings together professionals, researchers, and community leaders to explore the profound impact of culture on death, dying, and grief. This year’s theme, Cultural Implications of Death, Dying, and Grief, focuses on fostering understanding and dialogue about the diverse ways cultures navigate end-of-life experiences.
Held on May 8, 2025, at the Halifax Tower Hotel & Conference Centre (15 Lakelands Blvd, Beechville, NS B3S 1G4), this hybrid conference will address topics such as cultural diversity in grief, cross-cultural dialogue in palliative care, and the intersection of culture, beliefs, and identity in mourning practices.
With a commitment to collaboration, education, and innovation, NSHPCA aims to inspire culturally sensitive care and groundbreaking research, creating thoughtful and meaningful change in how one might perceive death, dying and grief for all Nova Scotian’s and beyond.
NSHPCA is situated in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Acknowledging the Mi’kmaq ancestral territory is our way of showing respect for and honouring our shared Treaty relationship. To uphold our duties and responsibilities as treaty people, we at NSHPCA are committed to building relationships with Indigenous organizations and peoples in Kjipuktuk.
We also recognize that Nova Scotia is home to over 50 African Nova Scotian communities, whose culture, heritage, and histories have been and remain an important part of this province for hundreds of years. As an organization that is guided by compassion, we will listen to and learn from the Black Nova Scotian communities.