Joyce Cheung

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Dr. Joyce Cheung is a family and palliative care physician based in Toronto, with a focus on health system quality improvement. She co-led the Priority Populations Project, which supported the development of the Central West Ontario Health Team CARE Program to improve home frailty care for vulnerable older adults.

2 Contributions

Mar 18, 2026

by Joyce Cheung Alessandra Palombo Kelly Le Roopinder Kaloty Iuliia Povieriena Chavi Tejpal

Too frail but not yet palliative: Ontario’s opportunity to lead in home care for older adults

If Ontario wants to help more people age at home, it should apply lessons from home palliative care to frailty right now. It needs to stop treating frailty as an administrative afterthought, and act on what it already knows works.

Feb 15, 2023

by Stephen B. Singh Pamela Liao Joyce Cheung Jacqueline Carverhill Brian Berger

Hospice care, not hospital beds: Investing in palliative care will help solve the health-care crisis

6,000 patients in Ontario currently need an “Alternate Level of Care” (ALC). They do not need to be in hospital, but there is nowhere safe for them to go. Government investment in palliative care is a crucial part of the solution.