Nick Lees: Time is now to support $15-million campaign to build Edmonton hospice facility

The number of Albertans dying each year will double over the next 10 to 20 years, says Dr. Donna A. Wilson, a University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing professor and researcher.
And now, she says, is the critical time to make sure Pilgrims Hospice Society’s $15-million capital campaign to build a first for Edmonton, free-standing residential-style community hospice succeeds.
“Currently in Alberta there are 25,000 deaths each year and 80 per cent of these people are elderly,” Wil