digital event resource pack…
This Digital Event Resource Pack is designed to support small group discussions over zoom, with input and facilitation from local experts. It includes outline event programmes, films and resources on four themes: What happens when someone is dying?; Planning ahead; Death in times of covid-19; Caring for the carer.
The Resource Pack also include ideas and tips on how to plan, host and facilitate a digital event. The full Digital Event Resource Pack is available here: DD Week Digital Event Resource Pack
Hosting a Digital Event
A guide to support you to hold a successful online event. This includes ideas and tips on how to plan, host and facilitate a digital event. Download here.
Video-conferencing facilities
We can provide you with free use of a Zoom Pro account to hold an event during Demystifying Death Week, including: video conferencing, password protected entry, breakout rooms – so you can split your event into smaller discussion groups. Download more information here.
Resources to share with event participants
The resources below can be adapted and shared with participants in your event:
– Promotional flyer. download here (get in touch and we’ll personalise it for you)
– Welcome letter for participants (download here)
– An introduction to using zoom. (download here)
– Safe space agreement (download here)
Web listing and promotion
If you’re planning an event, please get in touch – we can add your listing on to our website, and promote it through our social media and newsletter.
information leaflets
We have available eleven different leaflets that provide information relating to death, dying and bereavement. Hard copies can be ordered, or you can download the leaflets below. Please get in touch if you would like to order some:
- Leaflet 1 – Information to help you think about dying plans
- Leaflet 2 – Information to help those close to someone old or ill
- Leaflet 3 – How to help someone close to you who has been bereaved
- Leaflet 4 – What to do if someone you know has been bereaved
- Leaflet 5 – Information for ill or older people who want to start conversations about the future with family, friends or carers
- Leaflet 6 – Starting the conversation if someone close to you is dying
- Leaflet 7 – What to say if someone you know is dying
- Leaflet 8 – Information to help you help children understand death
Leaflet 9 – Five things you can plan for end of life - Leaflet 10 – Getting the facts right about death and dying
- Leaflet 11 – Starting end of life care conversations with people affected by dementia
- To Absent Friends, a people’s festival of storytelling and remembrance
what happens when someone is dying?
Designed for carers, families and friends of dying people, this online resource tries to answer some of the questions people may have about what happens in the very last days and hours of a person’s life…
– What happens when someone is dying?
– Will a person’s pain get worse as they get closer to dying?
– Should I be worried?
– What can I do to help?
The online resource can be accessed here: What happens when someone is dying?
planning for the future
Making plans when you’re healthy means there is less to think about if you get sick. It is never too soon to think about what you would like to happen if you become ill, or if your illness gets worse.
There are certain practical steps that everyone should take when thinking about planning for the future. Planning ahead in this way will make the financial, legal and practical consequences of illness and death for families much easier to deal with. More information about how to plan ahead for deteriorating health is available here: Planning ahead
films
We have produced a number of short films on the subjects of illness, death and bereavement.
These can be downloaded from our website free of charge, and used in a variety of situations, for example conferences, discussion events and training courses. A full list of films is available here: Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief films, and includes:
– 20 Takes on Death and Dying, a 10 minute film, filmed on the streets of Paisley, Elgin and Inverness in 2011, in which ordinary people share personal reflections on death and dying
– At Home With Illness, a collection of films in which in which three families, whose lives were changed forever when life-limiting illness arrived, share their powerful, emotional stories
it takes a village exhibition
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care worked with award-winning Glasgow based photographer, Colin Gray, to produce a powerful and challenging series of portraits and personal stories.
It Takes a Village explores the idea that as people’s health deteriorates, care and support comes in many guises.
When covid-19 restrictions allow, we have a limited number of copies of the exhibition available to tour. If you would like to provide a venue to host the exhibition, please get in touch.
origami game
We are delighted to have worked with colleagues at NHS Lothian to produce a mini-anticipatory care planning prompt…. in the form of a small origami game. More information about the game and how to download it is available here: Origami game
dining with death conversation menu
The Dining with Death conversation menu is designed to act as an ice-breaker to give people inspiration and permission to talk about death-related matters.
It can be used flexibly, across different types of events and different audiences.
It is designed to overcome barriers to engagement in death discussions by intriguing participants and engaging them in non-threatening conversations through which they can learn from their own and others’ experience.
The menu can be downloaded here: Conversation Menu.
the reluctant planner’s guide to death and dying
Good Life Good Death Good Grief’s Development Manager, Robert Peacock, wasn’t well-prepared for death. In his first months in the role, he set that straight. In this blog, he explains how he went about getting his affairs in order. He sought advice on what to do and when and how, and then did something about it, all the while hoping that none of it would be needed for some time yet – Reluctant Planner’s Guide to Death and Dying.
more resources
A full list of resources available from Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, plus some excellent resources from other organisations, is available here: Resources
Photo credits:
Hay bale – Michael Ryan; Wintry road – Michael Ryan; Portrait of a GP – Colin Gray; Signing papers – Scott Graham.
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ehospice is grateful to the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care and Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief for their generosity in sharing these resources.
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