No one enjoys talking about Death and Dying, but conversations about difficult conversations are important. At MacIntyre, we believe that living well includes dying well. To mark World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, we reflect on the support and resources available to people who need them.
Earlier this year, the Health team were rewarded at the Palliative Care awards, for their pioneering work in developing resources to provide practical and emotional support. These resources empower people to feel confident in having those difficult conversations around Loss and Bereavement, and to also have choice and control over their end-of-life care planning.
Recently, the Health team worked closely, alongside our learning disability nurse, Astrid Ubas, with supporting a gentleman, living with terminal cancer, in his home to have ‘a good death’. The Health team created resources, and provided training sessions from our collaboration with the Victoria and Stuart Project, which also helped the staff supporting this gentleman facilitate a good death for him in his home. You can read more about it here.
We have put together a playlist of Makaton signing cards around Living Well, Dying Well, which you can find here.
There is also still time to sign up to the award-winning Loss and Berevement training, in partnership with ARC, on 16 October, which is open to anyone who wants to know how to support a person with a learning disability who has/is experiencing loss and bereavement, and how to support staff teams when a person they support has died.
