Category Archives: public health palliative care

Ageing well and dying well in the right place: What Compassionate Communities can learn from Caring Neighbourhoods.

For the last in our Palliative Care and Public Health blog series, Liesbeth De Donder gives key learning points for palliative care from her research into Caring Neighbourhoods and why we cannot talk about ageing in place (the ability of … Continue reading

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Supporting the bereaved is everyone’s business.

For the penultimate blog in our Palliative Care and Public Health series, Samar Aoun asks what do we know about bereavement as it is lived out in everyday life? Until fairly recently, we knew about the minority who sought support … Continue reading

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Leaders, advocates and voices for change: a message about future nurse leaders.

For our Palliative Care and Public Health blog series, Philip Larkin and Sonja McIlfatrick reflect on palliative care nursing ‘facts of life’, nurse education and call for a reorientation of the way in which nurses see their role. It is … Continue reading

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The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: understanding a realistic utopia.

Death, dying, and loss are universal human experiences, but the contention of a new Lancet Commission is that they have become unfamiliar, disconnected, and unbalanced. For the next in our Palliative Care and Public Health blog series, Dr. Libby Sallnow … Continue reading

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Let’s create Compassionate Communities for the future!

In our Palliative Care and Public Health blog series, contributors explore the pressing issue about how palliative care could become part of public health as well as a health care priority. Marie-Charlotte Bouësseau, Elizabeth Gwyther & Allan Kellehear reflect on … Continue reading

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