The West Moreton Care at End of Life Collaborative was established in 2018 to improve outcomes and experiences for all people approaching end of life in the West Moreton community.
Tailored strategies to build capacity, aligned to the West Moreton community’s needs, were developed through consultation with the community.
Death as a social event - Building a Compassionate Community in West Moreton
Initiative Type
Redesign
Status
Close
Added
24 August 2021
Last updated
24 August 2021
Summary
Key dates
Jul 2018
Jun 2021
Implementation sites
West Moreton Hospital and Health Service
Partnerships
The West Moreton Collaborative membership - St Andrews Private Hospital, Ipswich Hospice Care, Ipswich City Council, Blue Care, Ipswich Hospital, University of Southern Queensland, Icon Cancer Care, Palliative Care Queensland, Queensland Ambulance Service
Aim
The short-term aim of this initiative is to respond to the communities’ request for access to information, support and community conversation about death and dying.
The long-term aim for this initiative is to build community capacity to better support and care for its own when they are approaching end of life. ‘Death is a social event with a medical component, not a medical event with a social component.
Benefits
- building a compassionate community is a long-term project. The short-term benefits seen from this project are
- beginning and continuing conversations with the community about care at end of life
- development of a compassionate community agenda and action plan
- community repository of end of life resources on a website that can be easily accessed by community members.
- increased knowledge and capacity of health care and community workers about communication at end of life
Background
One of the core aims of the collaborative is to address the level community capacity in the West Moreton region, to better prepare them to support and care for people approaching end of life.