This training is provided by Keech Hospice. Keech Hospice provides free specialist palliative and end of life care for people of all ages. They support adults in Bedfordshire. Children and their families in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Milton Keynes. At home, in hospice, or wherever needed. As a teaching hospice, their exceptional people, training, and facilities are helping local communities to live and die well.

This important training will provide PAs with the skills and knowledge needed to support individuals and their families during end-of-life care. The workshop will cover topics such as:

1. Care Services – All the care available from Keech is tailored to meet your individual needs, which means you might receive support at home, visit Keech Hospice for an appointment, join a video call, or stay at the hospice if needed.

3. The history of Keech Hospice which opened in 1986.

4. Tour of the hospice.

5. What is palliative and end of life care. Palliative care is all about improving your quality of life, and relieving your symptoms whether these are physical, emotional, psychological, social, economic or spiritual. Palliative care is about empowering you to live better, for longer, with your life-limiting or terminal illness.

6. Looking after yourself – Keech Hospice offer patients and their families a range of services to support physically, emotionally and psychologically.

7. Compassionate Communities – This opens up conversations about death, dying, bereavement and loss. A compassionate community is one in which everyone recognises that we all have a role in supporting each other, particularly during periods of crisis and loss. It’s about making a difference by enabling people within the community to make a personal connection with another person in whatever way shows compassion, kindness, and care.

This training partnership with Keech Hospice and The Disability Resource Centre ensures attendees receives the highest quality training.

This free workshop is an all day event from 9.30am to 3pm including a free buffet lunch.

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