The modern day palliative care movement aims to help people live well in their last year of life and ultimately realize a good death. However, every day more than 150 thousand people die across the world and of those only a small minority receive palliative care services. The free online course "Palliative Care: Making it Work" is for staff working in palliative care whether … [Read more...]
Communicate Your Last Wishes
Most folks don't spend a lot of time talking about their own death. Even though it is as much a part of the natural cycle of life for us as it is for animals and plants, ecosystems and galaxies, somehow when it comes to our own inevitable transition there is almost an unspoken belief that if we don't talk about it maybe it won't really happen. The unfortunate part about this … [Read more...]