Dying Matters Week 2017
We will be running three events to raise awareness of the importance of planning ahead for your care and treatment. Join us!
We will be running three events to raise awareness of the importance of planning ahead for your care and treatment. Join us!
When it comes to end of life care “conversation” is the new buzzword. Everyone is increasingly recognising that crucial to the delivery of person-centred good quality care are open and honest conversations. Whether between doctors and patients or with family or friends, honest conversations are the fuel on which excellent person-centred care runs.
While making plans for after your death is important, it says a lot about our culture that we are more likely to plan (and be encouraged to do so) for what happens after we die, than for having a good death ourselves.
When I spoke on BBC Radio Oxford I wanted to challenge the silent taboo and talk on the radio openly and publicly about death
As part of the Dying Matters Awareness Week (18-24 May 2015), events are being held across the country in order to raise awareness of the My Life, My Decision project which supports older people to plan ahead for their future medical treatment.
