Conversations About Advance Care Planning

In this episode we explore the model of Getting Your House in Order, describing it as a how to guide for Advance care Planning. We start at the very foundations and talk about why What Matters Most is at the heart of Advance Care Planning.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

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In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Wendy Hills. Wendy has over 30 years' experience as a Nurse qualifying in 1992, and specialising in Cancer and Chemotherapy. For a decade she developed chemotherapy services, including developing Nurse led chemotherapy and intravenous access in East Kent Hospitals. Wendy is currently the Director of Nursing and Care Services for Pilgrims Hospices.

I learn about the Advance Care Planning Project Think, Talk Act and why this is so important to Wendy. We talk about upstreaming Advance Care Planning, the importance of identifying patients who may benefit from Planning earlier and share our excitement at the May Advance Care Planning conference and book tour with Sammy Winemaker & Hsien Seow, pioneers of the Waiting Room Revolution and authors of Hope for the Best Plan for the Rest.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

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In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Dr. Christian Ntizimira, author of "The Safari Concept: An African Framework on End-of-Life Care" and Founder/Executive Director of the African Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. Christian shares the journey which led him to write the Safari Concept and we explore how culture and belief impact communication and care.

It is a powerful episode with messages about bias, development of culturally appropriate models and recognition of Ubuntu – I am because we are.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

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In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Alison Gardner & Sophy Horner from St John's Hospice about their incredible programme Last Days Matter. The programme aims to support people in looking after their loved ones at home and is very much a compassionate community approach to care.

I learn how the programme was developed, what it includes and how to access the Last Days Matter resource.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Gary Ryecroft, a solicitor and resident legal expert on Rip Off Britain. Gary has also been a trustee for what was the National Council for Palliative Care and later a chair of the Dying Matters Forum. This is a supper conversation, we talk about the podcast Gary created as part of the We Need to Talk About Death series with Dame Joan Bakewell and we talk about Gloria Hunniford's live televised Lasting Power of Attorney signing. We also cover capacity, digital assets and Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment and there is so much to learn from this rich conversation.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Peter Berry and Deb Bunt. Peter was diagnosed at 50 with early onset Alzheimer's.

Previously the owner of a thriving timber business, Peter's life changed upon the diagnosis. He has emerged through depression and two suicide attempts to be a passionate advocate of living well with dementia. A keen cyclist, Peter has used his cycling to raise money for and awareness of Alzheimer's. He is often seen cycling around rural Suffolk on his penny farthing bike.

Deb retired to Suffolk from London and found a new purpose in life when she befriended Peter. One of Deb's ambitions had been to be a publisher author and meeting Peter has enabled her to achieve this. Her friendship with Peter has also instilled a new-found confidence in Deb which she describes as a wonderful gift from Peter.

We talk about what living well means to Peter and the legacy he is creating through his work.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

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In this episode it is my pleasure to talk to Jim Walmsley, a specialist paramedic in critical care. Jim talks about how Advance Care Planning impacts the work he does, sharing stories and experience.Jim also explains why he is fundraising for the Intensive Care Society and how you can follow and support his iconic high alpine challenge.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

I'd heard about Death Cafés but never attended one and have always wanted to learn more about the movement. In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Ewout, facilitator of the Death Café Suffolk Transitions. We talk about the origins of Death Cafés, how they run in practice and what drew Ewout to become involved.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

If you enjoy the episode or learn something new, please consider buying me a coffee to go towards making more valuable podcasts: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/6nQVJqVgLY

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Justine Robinson, Occupational Therapist and Wellbeing Services manager at the Pilgrims Hospice. I learn about the role of an Occupational Therapist and we talk about how therapy work can help find the person in a patient. I learn too about the innovative Blackbird project, the story behind the project and how it is helping to make precious memories.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Professor Alison Leary. Alison is a Senior Consultant at the World Health Organisation, Human Resources for Health, and the Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University.

It's an important episode and based on Alison's family experience. We talk the impact of receiving a form in the post to initiate Advance Care Planning, what it felt like and how valuable messages and nuances were lost.

We also acknowledge the importance of having conversations and listening to cues as the basis for person centred Advance Care Planning.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.