MAKING SERIOUS ILLNESS, DEATH, DYING AND LOSS ‘PART OF LIFE’ IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

Description

Compassionate Communities have been put forward as a new model for community-based palliative care to positively impact the health and wellbeing of those experiencing the challenges of serious illness, death, dying, and loss. The literature indicates that especially educational institutions might play an important role in integrating experiences of serious illness, death, dying and loss in local communities. Educational institutions are at the same time learning environments, intergenerational hubs, employers, and formative actors that can create safe spaces, where these topics are not taboo topics, but can be discussed. This symposium wants to explore the role of educational institutions in fostering compassion, and brings together different educational institutions that are at various stages of developing compassionate initiatives within an educational context. The symposium will share experiences about the development process, the challenges and successes and promote further advances.
Sally Paul will start by discussing the role of education communities in public health palliative care. Drawing on her research with school communities she will present a conceptual model for compassionate schools and how this links with public health palliative care education.

Marieke Groot follows with a specific living lab in the Netherlands and focuses on the methods, current situation and first results of the route towards a Compassionate University College.
Veerle Coupez en Greetje Desnerck explain how an informal group of ‘believers’ of Howest (UAS Flanders) developed a Compassionat school. They give an insight in the learning network with the VUB and the services of student support.
Hanne Bakelants closes the symposium with her research on the development of a Compassionate University in Belgium – Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The goal is to understand how different stakeholders build a shared understanding of the aims and objectives of the Compassionate University and how community members experience the development process.

Periode	23 sep. 2022
Evenementstitel	7th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference
Evenementstype	Conference
Conferentienummer	7
Locatie	Bruges, BelgiumToon op kaart