ArticlePalliative care and social practice2020
The Compassionate Communities Connectors model for end-of-life care: a community and health service partnership in Western Australia.
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- Social support sources for people with palliative care needs at home: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
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- The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place-Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
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- Public sentiments and the influence of information-seeking preferences on knowledge, attitudes, death conversation, and receptiveness toward palliative care: results from a nationwide survey in Singapore.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
- Global Research Trend and Bibliometric Analysis of Current Studies on End-of-Life Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- How compassionate communities are implemented and evaluated in practice: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Achieving holistic, quality-of-life focused care: description of a Compassion Care Community initiative in Canada.Health promotion international · 2022Article
- "It Is a Whole Different Life from the Life I Used to Live": Assessing Parents' Support Needs in Paediatric Palliative Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Researching two Compassionate Cities: study protocol for a mixed-methods process and outcome evaluation.Palliative care and social practice · 2022Article
- Supporting the dying is a community responsibility.Palliative care and social practice · 2022Article
- Palliative Care Within the Primary Health Care Setting in Australia: A Scoping Review.Public health reviews · 2022Article
- 'The more you give, the better it is for you. You know the reward is greater than the effort': the Compassionate Communities Connectors' experience.Palliative care and social practice · 2022Article
- The Compassionate Communities Connectors model for end-of-life care: implementation and evaluation.Palliative care and social practice · 2022Article
- Winners and Losers in Palliative Care Service Delivery: Time for a Public Health Approach to Palliative and End of Life Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Palliative and End-of-Life Care Service Models: To What Extent Are Consumer Perspectives Considered?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundThere is an international drive towards increasing provision of community-led models of social and practical support for people living with advanced illness.
aimThis feasibility project aims to develop, implement and evaluate a model of community volunteers, identified as Compassionate Communities Connectors, to support people living with advanced life limiting illnesses/palliative care needs. The aims also include the development and evaluation of a training programme for volunteers and assessment of the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of this model of care.
methodsThe approach seeks to map and mobilise people's personal networks of care through the Connectors enlisting Caring Helpers (community volunteers). Up to 10 Connectors will be trained to work with at least 30 families selected by the palliative care service as requiring support. The primary outcome is the effect of the intervention on social connectedness. Secondary outcomes are the intervention's effect on unplanned hospital utilisation, caregiver support needs, advance care plans and satisfaction with intervention for patients/carers, volunteers and service providers.
conclusionIt is expected that this intervention will enhance patient, carer and family social, psychological and practical support and reduce the need for dying people to be admitted to a hospital.
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