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This event will be available to watch on-demand on the Marie Curie website later in February
Date: Wed Feb 8th
Time: 11:00
Duration: 120 mins
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It is important to ensure that everyone affected by death and dying – including the family, friends and carers of the dying person – are supported through and beyond the end of life. This session will feature presentations on the Bereavement Commission and on loneliness in terminally ill patients and their informal carers.
This session will include the following presentations:
- Welcome to day three of the conference
- Bereavement is everyone’s business; findings and next steps from the UK Commission on Bereavement with the National Bereavement Alliance & Marie Curie
- Tackling loneliness in terminally ill patients and their informal carers with Dr Tracey McConnell (Queen’s University Belfast & Marie Curie)
- Selected abstracts on support for everyone affected by death, dying and bereavement”
- One step at a time; using compassionate communities’ model (COMPASS Ghana) to impact on the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care in resource-poor setting with Yakubu Salifu
- The Role of the Men’s Shed in a Hospice Day Service context: Identifying features of a successful group and developing recommendations to expand the service with Rachel Perry
- Caregivers´ experiences of end-of-life caregiving in a home care setting with Elsa Joan Durhuus Johannesen
