MY PURPOSE: creating effective communication to grow understanding and identification of hospice palliative care in order to encourage citizen engagement with the sustainability and development of hospice palliative care options as well as increase early integration of hospice palliative care for patients and their family
Perceptions of Palliative Hospice Care
stigma associated with palliative care
Heirchical language # Foucault 🏁
hospice/palliative/hospice-palliative care has many definitions, - WHO org def out of date. Medical community lacks clarity and agreement on meaning
Culture Shift - as an opportunity
social, political, culture supports that this is the time to reframe
Changing health care needs
death cafe
death doulas
Bill C14 -Dying with dignity #
Bill C-41 politicizing
People living longer
more medicalization
Seniors issue
People not living near family
aging population
it is the entry into death
it is for pain management
hospice palliative relatively new phenomenon (1980's in NA)
= lack of choice
age-ism
Not relevant to me
Dissonance
taboo subject
it's a medical issue #
medical language separates medical from community #
social media
Palliative Hospice as a public health issue
Healthy communities
collaboration/partnership with other health, social science org
not just a service for the dying, supporting the bereaved #
compassionate communies movement model, dying matters model
increased health literacy
leads to community empowerment and participation, com engagement leads to new understanding
narratives in health care education to break down the barriers, and increase identification and frame hospice as a public health issue - Fischer's narrative paradigm & Theory of Social Constructivism and stories 🏁
Barriers #
bereaved carer as educator, sharing stories in medical schools
stories of bereaved carer are more relatable that those of the ppl dying # **Burkes theory of identification 🏁
culture, dying is private
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Elaboration Likelihood Model and Social Judgement Theory - (the personal relevance of a story will impact an individuals motivation to make make meaning of the info presented.) 🏁