Working with Communities to Develop Resilience in End of Life and Bereavement Care: Hospices, Schools and Health Promoting Palliative Care

This paper discusses research undertaken to explore and develop practice between a hospice and two primary schools. Action research was used to increase understanding about current practice in, and with, schools and to explore, implement and evaluate models of practice. Seven practice innovations we...

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Published inJournal of social work practice Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 187 - 201
Main Author Paul, Sally
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.04.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Action research
Bereavement
Community
Death & dying
Elementary schools
End of life decisions
end-of-life and bereavement care
Grief
health promoting palliative care
Health promotion
Health services
Hospice care
Hospices
Innovations
Palliative care
public health approaches to palliative care
Research methodology
Resilience
school communities
Schools
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Summary:This paper discusses research undertaken to explore and develop practice between a hospice and two primary schools. Action research was used to increase understanding about current practice in, and with, schools and to explore, implement and evaluate models of practice. Seven practice innovations were identified that are in various stages of being piloted. These innovations can be understood as health promoting palliative care activities, due to the process through which they were designed and their focus on developing the capacity of communities to respond to death, dying and bereavement. They demonstrate the diverse role that hospices, can play in developing how communities experience death, dying and bereavement and propose that a broader lens is employed to understand and facilitate end of life and bereavement services.
ISSN:0265-0533
1465-3885
DOI:10.1080/02650533.2016.1168383