Projects
Glasgow hospitals host death information events
To mark Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief awareness week 2013, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde worked together with local hospices to hold to information events in two hospitals. Resources providing information about death, dying and bereavement were made available, and a Before I Die was on display, offering people the opportunity to share one thing that they would like to do before they die.
Public awareness events held in Clydebank
If as individuals, and a society, we are not open about death, dying and loss then it can make things more complicated when someone dies. NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde are working in partnership with St Margaret’s of Scotland Hospice to hold 3 public education events to raise awareness of the importance of being more open about death and dying. At this event you can:
Legacy Organiser iPhone App helps patients to enhance their lives
Legacy Organiser, the world’s first iPhone app that enables users to record information about how they would like their lives to be remembered and celebrated, is collaborating with the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in a ground breaking project.
Project to support bereaved people with learning disabilities
PAMIS is a registered charity working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and complex health care needs, their parents and carers and interested professionals. A pilot study was recently carried out by PAMIS and had identified the particular and unique needs of both people with PMLD and their carers in relation to levels of support for them when bereaved. As a result of these findings, funding to carry out work in relation to the topic of bereavement and loss was secured. The project will run over two years.
NHS Borders working towards more openness about death, dying and bereavement
In May 2011, Alan Kellehear was the inspirational keynote speaker at the Third Borders Palliative Care Conference entitled Let’s all talk about Life and Death. Various workshops took place including one by Professor Kellehear about creating a compassionate community. Bullet points were taken from all the workshops and the final session discussed the conference outcomes as a starting point for taking health promoting palliative care work forward in the Borders. The feedback from the conference was very positive with many wanting to know further advances made in the area. (For more information about health promoting palliative care see: the theory section of this website.)
Western Isles Alliance
The Western Isles Palliative Care Committee is looking to form an alliance of locally interested stakeholders from diverse areas such as health and social care, education, voluntary groups, community groups, legal professions and local religious groups. The alliance will consider ways of implementing a health promoting palliative care approach in the Western Isles.
Making Inverclyde a compassionate community
Ardgowan Hospice, Inverclyde Community Healthcare Partnership and Your Voice Inverclyde Community Care Forum are jointly organising a one day conference event on October 12, 2011. The event, which is timed to coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the hospice, will be entitled “Ardgowan Hospice: 30 years of helping to make Inverclyde a compassionate community”.
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