Abstract:Educating and raising awareness among lay members of the public about palliative care can significantly improve the care for terminally ill patients and their quality of life. This paper reports on the survey aimed at assessing the experience and expectations of participants in the Last Aid course launched in Slovenia in 2019 to train hospice volunteers and promote dialogue on death and dying. The course implementation was supported by materials prepared, translated, and/or adapted from German under the PO-LAS… Show more
“…The next challenge of the Slovenian hub is establishing a coordination and administration support for the LAST AID course providers and intensification of the research in this field. Some publications regarding the acceptance of the model were already done [11].…”
This chapter provides an overview over the Last Aid Course (LAC) as measure for Public Palliative Care Education (PPCE) and the experiences from different countries on the implementation of Last Aid Courses. The concept of Last Aid and the public knowledge approach to teach Palliative Care for the public were first described by Bollig in 2008. Last Aid Courses can be seen as educational basis of compassionate communities and have now been spread to 21 countries worldwide. Experiences show differences and similarities in the national implementation process of LAC in four different countries.
“…The next challenge of the Slovenian hub is establishing a coordination and administration support for the LAST AID course providers and intensification of the research in this field. Some publications regarding the acceptance of the model were already done [11].…”
This chapter provides an overview over the Last Aid Course (LAC) as measure for Public Palliative Care Education (PPCE) and the experiences from different countries on the implementation of Last Aid Courses. The concept of Last Aid and the public knowledge approach to teach Palliative Care for the public were first described by Bollig in 2008. Last Aid Courses can be seen as educational basis of compassionate communities and have now been spread to 21 countries worldwide. Experiences show differences and similarities in the national implementation process of LAC in four different countries.
This Special Issue, “Public Health Palliative Care (PHPC) and Public Palliative Care Education (PPCE)”, highlights recent advances and challenges in PHPC and PPCE [...]
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