ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2019
Last Aid Course. An Education For All Citizens and an Ingredient of Compassionate Communities.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Key themes and approaches in palliative and end-of-life care education for the general public: a systematic review.BMC palliative care · 2025Pooled it
- 'Stay Curious': guest experiences of philosophical counselling in palliative care - a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Creating compassionate workplaces: A mixed-methods-based integrated framework on last aiders in the workplace.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Last Aid Courses as a Means for Public Palliative Care Education-A Narrative Review of the Literature and 10 Years of Experience Around the World with Implications for Future Research.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Friends and neighbours as non-kin caregivers of seriously ill patients at the end of life: a scoping review of experiences, individual capacities, support needs and services.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- First Experiences with Last Aid Courses as Tool for Public Palliative Care Education in Brazil.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Instructors' Views on and Experiences withInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Palliative care training programmes for community volunteers working with children and their families: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- "Don't leave us behind": a qualitative study exploring the feasibility of a palliative care training program for non-health caregivers in Honduras.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Barriers and drivers of public engagement in palliative care, Scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Inequities in access to palliative and end-of-life care in the black population in Canada: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- "We Want to Talk about Death, Dying and Grief and to Learn about End-of-Life Care"-Lessons Learned from a Multi-Center Mixed-Methods Study on Last Aid Courses for Kids and Teens.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Report from the Fourth International Last Aid Conference: Last Aid and networks in community palliative care.Palliative care and social practice · 2024Article
- Where are the values in evaluating palliative care? Learning from community-based palliative care provision.Palliative care and social practice · 2024Article
- Palliative Care Survey: Awareness, Knowledge and Views of the Styrian Population in Austria.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- "I Needed to Know, No Matter What I Do, I Won't Make It Worse"-Expectations and Experiences of Last Aid Course Participants in Germany-A Qualitative Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Report from the Third International Last Aid Conference: cultural diversity in palliative care.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
- Last Aid Course-The Slovenian Experience.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Last Aid Training Online: Participants' and Facilitators' Perceptions from a Mixed-Methods Study in Rural Scotland.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Is There a Need for Cultural Adaptation of the Last Aid Course?-A Mixed-Methods Study across the Danish-German Border.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Due to demographic changes, the need for palliative care in the community and at home is expected to rise in the coming years. The care that is given by family members and general practitioners plays a vital role in basic palliative care. Knowledge in palliative care is very limited or totally absent in most communities, and information about the effects of educational procedures in teaching non-professionals in basic palliative care is sparse. In the Last Aid course, the public knowledge approach and the initial experiences from the implementation process are described. In addition, a review of the literature on educational efforts regarding palliative care for non-professionals and the existing literature on Last Aid courses is provided. An international working group has established a curriculum for Last Aid courses based on four teaching hours (45 minutes each). The feasibility of Last Aid courses for the public has been tested in pilot courses. The experiences with Last Aid courses in different countries are overall very positive. Last Aid courses are well-attended. The evaluation of questionnaires in a German pilot study has shown a favorable response. Last Aid courses may form the educational basis of compassionate communities, and are well-suited to inform the public about palliative care and end-of-life care.
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