End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation
Discover end of life care practice around the world and explore new ideas around palliative care with this online life studies course from University of Glasgow.
Duration
3 weeks
Weekly study
4 hours
100% online
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Location
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Learn about new directions and the latest thinking on end of life care.
Death itself may be certain, but how we die involves many challenges. On this course, you’ll explore the care we receive when dying, cultural variations and beliefs around what makes a good death, and the planning and timing of death.
With increasingly ageing populations, we are living longer but dying more slowly. New ideas around end of life care are therefore emerging in different contexts. You will discover the patterns and global trends taking place in palliative care, and explore these new approaches from a social science and humanities perspective.
It is ideal for anybody considering taking The University of Glasgow’s MSc End of Life Studies
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#1 in Health & Medicine and Nursing You’ll also be learning from health and care experts at the University of Glasgow, recently ranked as offering the number one online healthcare course and number 14 online health and medicine course by Class Central, a search engine ranking the top online classes of all time. |
What topics will you cover?
- Defining dying and end of life
- ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ dying
- Hospital care at the end of life
- How communities around the world are creating new ways to deliver palliative care for people with chronic and terminal illnesses – the example of Kerala, in India
- How ‘compassionate communities’ are forming to work alongside service providers to meet the challenges of loneliness, isolation and the experience of ‘social death’ – the example of Clydebank, in Scotland
- Examining the fast growing world-wide interest in the movement known as ‘Death Café’
- Many people want to take direct control over how they die. Where is assisted dying legal and what are its implications – for the meaning of death, the practice of palliative care and the ‘right to choose’?
- Rational suicide – an emerging response to the desire for direct control over the manner of one’s death, especially among older people
- How modern individuals seek to ‘curate’ their dying process and the rituals that follow it
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