Executive summary The story of dying in the 21st century is a story of paradox. While many
people are overtreated in hospitals with families and communities relegated to the margins …

Background: Communities play an increasingly significant role in their own health and social
care, and evidence demonstrates the positive impact of this work on a range of health …

Aims: To determine who provides bereavement support in the community, what sources are
perceived to be the most or least helpful and for what reason, and to identify the empirical …

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying
and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new …

Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for
people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional …

Compassionate communities as part of the public health approach to end-of-life care (EoLC)
offers the possibility of solving the inequity of the difference in provision of care for those …

Background With increasing numbers of people living with complex life-limiting
multimorbidity in the community, consideration must be given to improving the organisation …

Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy.
This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that …

Background Compassionate communities are rooted in a health promotion approach to
palliative care, aiming to support solidarity among community members at the end of life …

Background: Area-Based Compassionate Communities are community public health
interventions which focus on the role of the community in palliative care provision. They …