Moving from theory to practice

Approach, Influences and Terminology

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief is part of the international Public Health Palliative Care movement, and we aim to contribute to and learn from international developments in the field.

Our work has been influenced by the ideas of Professor Allan Kellehear, as explored within his book Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End of Life Care (2005). Our work has taken inspiration from Kellehear’s ‘Compassionate Cities’ model, as well as from wider thinking around ‘Compassionate Communities’.

Our work is guided by a community development approach – we aim to encourage and support individuals, communities and organisations to undertake the change they think needs to happen within their own communities.

We are working to increase death literacy and grief literacy across Scotland by taking actions in the five key domains outlined in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion.

We aim to inform and support delivery of Scottish Government policies that affect experiences of death, dying and bereavement in Scotland.

Our work programme has been shaped by the views of relevant stakeholders from across Scotland, as set out within our 2018 report A Road Less Lonely.

 

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