1st Edition
Compassionate Communities Case Studies from Britain and Europe
240 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Compassionate communities are communities that provide assistance for those in need of end of life care, separate from any official heath service provision that may already be available within the community. This idea was developed in 2005 in Allan Kellehear’s seminal volume- Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End of Life Care. In the ensuing ten years the theoretical aspects of the... Read more
Preface Klaus Wegleitner, Katharina Heimerl and Allan Kellehear 1. Hospices and Community Development: A National UK Perspective Libby Sallnow, Antonia Bunnin and Heather Richardson 2. Developing Community Support Networks at the End of Life in Weston-super-Mare, UK Julian Abel and Ditch Townsend 3. Compassionate Community in Shropshire, West Midlands, England Paul Cronin 4. Compassionate Community in Sandwell, West Midlands, England Mangula Patel 5. Community Partnerships: A Public Health Approach to Ageing, Death, Dying and Loss Siobhan Horton, Rachel Zammit and Bie Nio Ong 6. The Compassionate City Charter: Inviting the Cultural and Social Sectors Into End of Life Care Allan Kellehear 7. 'Join Bill United!': Compassionate Communities in Limerick, Ireland Kathleen McLoughlin and Jim Rhatigan 8. Caring Community in Living and Dying in Landeck, Tyrol, Austria Klaus Wegleitner, Patrick Schuchter and Sonja Prieth 9. 'Ethics from the Bottom Up': Promoting Networks and Participation Through Shared Stories of Care Patrick Schuchter and Andreas Heller 10. Dementia-Friendly Pharmacy: A Doorway in the Community in Vienna and Lower Austria Petra Plunger, Verena Tatzer, Katharina Heimerl and Elisabeth Reitinger 11. A Convent Initiative: Compassionate Community in Solothurn, Switzerland Elisabeth Wappelshammer and Christine Weissenberg 12. Community Palliative Care in Eastern Switzerland: The Role of Local Forums in Developing Palliative Care Culture and Enabling Ethical Discourse Katharina Linsi and Karin Kaspers-Elekes 13. Dementia-friendly Communities: Together for a Better Life with (and without) Dementia Reimer Gronemeyer and Verena Rothe 14. On the Way to a Caring Community? The German Debate Thomas Klie
Biography
Klaus Wegleitner is Assistant Professor, Institute of Palliative Care and Organisational Ethics, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF Vienna), Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria.
Katharina Heimerl is Associate Professor and Head, Institute of Palliative Care and Organisational Ethics, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF Vienna), Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria.
Allan Kellehear is 50th Anniversary Chair – Professor of End-of-Life Care, University of Bradford, UK.
