Advocating for a better long-term care system: a conversation with Palliative Care Physician Dr. Amit Arya

Dr. Amit Arya is a palliative care physician who works in hospital, home care,  and long-term care facilities, and is also a professor at the University of Toronto and McMaster University.  He's currently the palliative care lead at Kensington Health in Toronto, and also works at the Freeman Centre for Palliative Care at North York General Hospital in Toronto, Ontario.  He 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, Dr. Arya co-founded Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care, a coalition of over a thousand physicians and researchers advocating for an overhaul of the long-term care system in Ontario. He has been featured in the media speaking about long-term care on well-known programs such as CBC's The National, CTV’s The Social, and TVO’s The Agenda. 

Learn more about the Strengthening a Palliative Approach to Long-Term Care project at: https://spaltc.ca/