We’ll be running another Death Cafe on March 11 at the St George and Sutherland Community College at 127-129 Sutherland Rd, Jannali on Saturday March 11. It goes from 10am til 12 noon. At a death cafe you express your thoughts and experiences. The facilitators guide, so the conversation is … Read more
We’ve been contacted by the team at the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying – Flinders University who want to find people who’ll tell them about their family’s experiences with a death doula. The services of death doulas are being utilised more and more in Australia. Here is … Read more
Here are some documents discussed at our Mosman Seniors Centre session today. It doesn’t matter whether you were there or not, these might be useful. Take our easy two question survey. And if you take our simple two question survey today, you could be in the draw to get a … Read more
Slip in at lunch time. The session will go for an hour, from 12 noon until 1pm, and we’d love to see you. Mosman Seniors Centre, Mosman Square, 12noon-1pm, Monday February 20. Coffee, tea and sandwiches will be provided. At the beginning of the session, we’ll invite you to answer … Read more
Join us on February 9, for our FREE event, as I and other guest speakers share our stories, knowledge, and experience about legal considerations, managing grief and bereavement, the benefits of memorialisation, as well as the importance of having ‘those’ conversations. “There will be plenty of room if someone joins … Read more
Do you want to use the interactive version of this – it’s easier! Just click here. What is your biggest question about dying? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What is your biggest fear about dying? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you have something else you want to ask or say? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please let us know: Your age. … Read more
I shared ideas last Thursday around dying well with social work interns, who are learning by developing a public health approach to palliative care. During our session we discussed some troubling stories and how the intern’s positive input could help change some sad, yet avoidable hospital scenarios. This was part … Read more
Join us on February 9, as I and other guest speakers share our stories, knowledge, and experience about legal considerations, managing grief and bereavement, the benefits of memorialisation, as well as the importance of having ‘those’ conversations. Following the presentation, morning tea will be available along with the opportunity to … Read more
This article was updated 20 October, 2022. It features Dr Katrin Berger’s thoughts on pain management at the end of life. When Dr Katrin Gerber shared her thoughts about the important topic of pain management at the end of life, it brought back many memories. My mother died in a … Read more
This article was updated on September 12, 2022. It discusses artificial intelligence at the end of life. Suggesting artificial intelligence (AI) be used in the end of life space, might make the heart race, or cause you to recoil in horror. Do we really want to use artificial intelligence at … Read more
This article was updated on 2 September, 2022. It discusses preferences of places to die. The work of Dr Katrin Gerber has caught our eye. This is because whenever the question comes up about choosing where someone wants to die, it can be hard to gauge accurately, and Katrin has … Read more
This article has been updated on 26 August 2022. It discusses loneliness and early death. “When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be tackling the opioid crisis and obesity. Instead, he discovered a much larger health crisis, one that connects … Read more
This article updated on 16 August 2022, discusses pressure sores in palliative care. With all our attention recently focused on the big threat of Covid-19, the little things that don’t appear to be a problem could sneak up on us. A reader raised her concerns about the way her mother … Read more
This article was updated on 25 July 2022. For over eleven years, Paul P Winbanks was a cancer carer and then a palliative carer, to his beloved, late wife. “There were very few resources written from a male carer’s experience,” he explains. “I promised myself that I would ‘pay it … Read more
Jane’s behaviours, which in a palliative care setting would have been seen as the concerns of an elderly person who was about to die, were instead wrongly interpreted as the behaviour of someone being difficult