Building Compassionate Communities

Building Compassionate Communities

An Interview with Professor Allan Kellehear

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The Compassionate Community movement in palliative care kicked off in 2005, when Professor Allan Kellehear’s seminal work, Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End of Life Care, not only defined Compassionate Communities but also outlined the historical, political and conceptual basis of compassionate cities, providing a community development model for end-of-life care. In this interview, Professor […]

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A Caregiver’s Acceptance

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While palliative caregivers are unsung heroes providing care and comfort during patients ’final moments, they might also find themselves in need of a listening ear. Mr K was a palliative caregiver at Sengkang Community Hospital, one of the community hospitals under SingHealth Community Hospitals (SCH), who struggled to come to terms with his best friend’s

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Navigating grief in the workplace

Building Compassionate Communities, Singapore Hospice Council /

During the Live Well. Leave Well. Festival, the Singapore Hospice Council hosted a lunchtime talk titled “Quiet Cubicles: Facilitating Workplace Grief and Loss with Compassion” led by Dr Paul Victor Patinadan, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The talk threw a spotlight on the prevailing culture of silence around workplace

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Bringing joy and comfort

Building Compassionate Communities, Singapore Cancer Society /

Nurses involved in community care providing palliative home care share a patient’s experience to highlight the importance of compassion. In the area of palliative home care, the impact of compassionate community work cannot be overstated. As senior enrolled nurses, we are privileged to witness the profound influence we have on patients and their families, even

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From the ground up

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While the impact of grassroots efforts to grow compassionate communities hasn’t been measured, Woodlands Health recognises the importance of collaborating to grow this social change movement. The term ‘compassionate communities’ was described by Dr Allan Kellehear in the mid-2000s as “naturally occurring networks of support in neighbourhoods and communities, surrounding those experiencing death, dying, caregiving,

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