Transcript Advance Care Planning training series introduction

Advance Care Planning and
Communication Skills for
End of Life Care
An online learning programme
funded by Health Education
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
This training package was created in partnership by:
With funding from:
Why will the programme be relevant to you?
Why will the programme be relevant to you?
Our dying is part of our living!
‘Ssshh…. let’s
not talk about
it!’
Talking about
dying in a society
which denies the
very possibility
that it might one
day happen is
not easy!
Programme contents
Unit 1:
What do we mean by advance care planning and why is it so important?
Unit 2:
Legal capacity and advance care planning
Unit 3:
When should an advance care plan be discussed?
Unit 4:
Who should initiate and lead discussions about advance care planning?
Unit 5:
Initiating and conducting advance care planning discussions
Unit 6:
Advance care planning with children, young people, and their families
Unit 7:
Advance care planning in learning disability
Unit 8:
Advance care planning in dementia
Unit 9:
Advance care planning in care homes
Unit 10:
Advance communication skills workshops (optional)
Unit :
Who should initiate and lead discussions about advance care planning?
Taking your learning further
The technical bit!
Open each narrated
PowerPoint presentation
and use the forwards and
backwards keys to move
from one slide to the other
when you are ready.
Make sure that your speakers
or headphones are switched
on and that the volume is set
to a comfortable level.
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StartS
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