The end of our lives is something we often don’t want to think about, let alone talk about. However, next week 18th-24th May 2015 Dying Matters are holding their annual awareness week about end-of-life rights and choices. My Life, My Decision will be holding events all over the country as part of the week.
Getting out and about to other projects has been a really useful this month. Meetings with East London Dementia Care and Hackney and City’s Alzheimer’s Society enabled us to identify some of the barriers to ensuring individuals with dementia are aware of their end of life rights and ensuring staff feel able to support them.
Our End of Life Advocacy Project is now officially launched! Our volunteers have been an amazing help with our mail out to GP practices, charities and care homes in East London.
Stories, like the one above shared by Jenny one of our service users, and the ones shown in the poignant & moving Dying Matters film are the reason we do what we do, and is why we want to extend the ELRA service to the whole of England.
Our training has developed considerably since the beginning of the ELRA project. We have now developed three training modules.
The End of Life Advocacy Project was launched in January by Compassion in Dying in partnership with Age UK (East London).
