Palliative care
Aliki Karapliagkou
Abstract
This chapter describes a practical model that redesigns and reshapes palliative care services, by inviting and organizing the coordination and interaction between specialist palliative care, generalist palliative care, compassionate communities, and the civic approach to end of life care. The seamless integration of these four components, which are already part of some end of life care systems around the world, offers the possibility of uniting professional care with community resources. The outcome of the proposed partnership is inclusive care irrespective of cause of death, and opportunities of support for the bereaved in equal measure. The chapter argues that the interdependency of these four components provides the essential ingredients that will help reshape palliative and end of life care.