9. #COMPassion Putting the passion back in Compassion: Community pull together to drive Palliative Care

Palliative care is often thought of as the care you receive on your deathbed, when nothing else can be done in a person’s final weeks.

 

Professor Samar Aoun is the 2023 Western Australian of the Year and an advocate for palliative care working to change the perception of how beneficial palliative care is.

 

Together we look at the impact of palliative care on patients who are living with a life-limiting illness and how implementing palliative care earlier can improve the quality of both life and death.

 

In this episode we cover:

●        What is palliative care

●        How palliative care can start at the time a diagnosis is made

●        Changing the perception of palliative care

●        Social isolation and connecting people who need help

●        Compassionate Connectors Program in WA’s southwest

●        Encouraging more talk about end of life choices

●        Personal experiences with grief and compassionate communities

●        Death is everyone’s responsibility

●        Call to action for our governments

●        Dealing with baby boomer deaths in coming years

●        Reducing the load on the clinical system

●        Questions about death to ask loved ones, when they are still living

●        Putting compassion back into health care.

 

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

●        #Hashtag Death Instagram:@hashtag_death

●        Ways to work with Ingrid:forevernow.com.au

●        Ingrid Reiger’s Facebook:@forevernowcelebrant

●        Ingrid Reiger’s Instagram:@ingrid_forevernowcelebrant

●        Compassionate Connectors program: https://comcomnetworksw.com/

●        You can find more about Samar and her work on LinkedIn “(1) Samar Aoun | LinkedIn”

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