End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

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Free Online Course (Audit)
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English
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$54.00 Certificate Available
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3 weeks, 4 hours a week
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MSc End of Life Studies

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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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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.

This course is for people interested in or engaged in matters relating to death, dying, bereavement, palliative and end of life care.

This course will be of special interest to those working in healthcare, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health and social care professionals.

The course will also appeal to practitioners, students, researches, volunteers and policymakers in end of life care, as well as social activists and those working in artistic and cultural media who are working on end of life issues.

It is ideal for anybody considering the University of Glasgow’s MSc End of Life Studies

Syllabus

Definitions, Concepts, and the Particular Case of Hospital Dying

Welcome to the Course
Overview
Defining 'End of Life' and 'Dying'
'Good' and 'Bad' Dying
Hospital Care at End of Life
Week 1 Summary

Community Approaches to End of Life Care and Contemporary Dying

Overview
Community Palliative Care in Kerala, India
Compassionate Communities
End-of-Life Doulas
Death Café
Week 2 Summary

The Rise of Autonomy, Choice and Personalisation

Overview
Assisted Dying
Old-Age Rational Suicide
Personalised Funerals
Week 3 Summary
Course Recap

Taught by

David Clark

Reviews

4.8 rating, based on 153 Class Central reviews

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Randal Oulton @RandalOulton

Just finished. This was a very interesting micro course. Not gloomy or depressing or scary at all. I can recommend it (and it's also free! ) There is a fair bit of recommended reading and very good discussion that is worth taking part in, though, so as usual take the estimated hours per week with a grain of salt.
Anonymous

End-of-life care is a very important issue to be studied by everybody. It gives us people's experiences and the meaning of doula and helping people at the end of their life at moment it is good to ask people before they die what they want to do in the last moment of their lives like what kind of music they like or whom they want to meet and they want to say before saying farewell the course was mention all the topics about the end of life
Anonymous

This course has offered me so many new perspectives in the field of healthcare. I have been working with elderly patients for about a year, and each one requires special care and attention in their daily life. However, approaching their death with this foundation, this professional development, and learning from other experiences — especially from an anthropological perspective — is truly a professional achievement.
Anonymous

A great, very informative course. The course covered wide ranging topics in end of life care. The challenges in end of life care were all discussed in depth with lots of up to date examples. The initiatives that are occurring in end of life care globally were extremely interesting to study. This course has lots of interesting articles to read as well advancing my knowledge.
Anonymous

Very informative made me truly think about the issues of the course and helped me gain some new perspectives on these issues.
Elaine Drummond

The course encompassed all areas of the end of life There was new ideas about how end of life need not be a bad experience The Inverclyde community showed how communities can come together to make a difference to patients leaving hospital and it was similar to the Kerala project. Various settings were discussed where end of life takes place from community
hospital and hospices. New ideas were also discussed by the celebrant.
Thanks to all who put the course together
Anonymous

This is a challenging subject for everyone. My sincere thanks go to the educators and fellow learners for such a very thought-provoking opportunity, and to FL for enabling peers who wished to share their head and heart thoughts in its safe global en…

This is a challenging subject for everyone. My sincere thanks go to the educators and fellow learners for such a very thought-provoking opportunity, and to FL for enabling peers who wished to share their head and heart thoughts in its safe global environment.
The course was well designed and its content was very pertinent. I found the language used in the presented sessions, especially in the 3rd week, elegant and fresh. It extended my knowledge and understanding and prompted critical reflection; it will inform both my own advance planning and my dialogue with others going forward.
I sense peers in my cohort were predominately residents across the Global North and some discussions would have been further enriched with more contributions from peers with other cultural perspectives. Also, I have thought of some additional topics I'd have liked covered, but this is a positive outcome of a very good learning experience, not a criticism. I recommend this course to those with professional and/or personal experience and interest in this time of life.
Hazel McCorrisken

This course had a lot packed into it with lots to think about too.
There were many topics I had never heard about before and that made for interesting reading and learning.
Anonymous

Very well presented with clarifying and explanatory points in regard to end-of-life matters. Recommended!
Anonymous

This course offers a profound exploration of end-of-life issues, emphasizing self-directed interventions like assisted dying, rational suicide, and personalised funerals. Through diverse case studies and thoughtful discussions, it challenges traditional views and highlights the importance of autonomy and individual choice in the dying process. Highly informative and thought-provoking.
Anonymous

A very profound and enlightening course. It look at dying and death from a social perspective and the course content is relevant for all standards.
Anonymous

This course is functional and avantgarde. It reveals the definition of good and bad death, also introduces the ideas of death trajectories in the study of week 1. I could had a basic conception of death itself and think further about how to reach a…

This course is functional and avantgarde. It reveals the definition of good and bad death, also introduces the ideas of death trajectories in the study of week 1. I could had a basic conception of death itself and think further about how to reach a good death. Then in week 2, to show how a community will create and help for dying people and to provide best practice in different countries, I could know as an individual, where I can start to help and do something in end of life area. Finally in week 3, the focuses are on individuals’ autonomy of how to die and the development of legalization of assisted death with very updated cases. I am really interested in the degree’s courses after studying in this program. And even just studied in this free course, I’ve already renewed my concept and could seize methods in some places. It is a very valuable and diligent course.
Kirk Lothian

Many of the topics covered in this course have been debated in the media for decades but the participation in the course allowed me to deeply consider my own thoughts on the matter. There were some wonderfully enlightening and encouraging topics highlighting the selfless acts of compassion both abroad and very close to home. New roles within society are discussed and overall a very positive experience which I was quite surprised about, considering the gravity of the topic.
Anonymous

Very insightful. It discusses the simple way of dying to the compassion community and the personalisation of funerals. A lot of question was stirred in me and I would like to keep continue discovering more about this topic. And I'm planning to go to a Death Cafe in the coming weeks!
Anonymous

I've just completed this course and it's been fascinating. A great range of topics and all so clearly set out and easy to explore at my own pace. Lots of links to further reading and we were encouraged to engage with others on the course too.

Very tempted by the MSc! Thanks so much for all the work that's gone into this - I can't believe it's free.
Anonymous

This course is designed to give the student a wider perspective about death and other aspects associated with it. It has been a great learning experience to know about assisted suicide, the guidelines behind it. New terms like rational suicide, coffin club, personalised funeral, were very thought provoking and helped me understand ,how rest of the worlsidhandling this natural phenomenon.
Anonymous

A very interesting and challenging course that opens the conversation on death and dying - a topic that needs to be talked about. The content is very relevant. I think one area that is perhaps lacking is the a section on palliative/end of life care as also a very valid choice .
Anonymous

This is an excellent course. It is well-designed and progresses naturally. I learnt a lot in the course. The videos are very clearly articulated, and they have good content. The articles are also well-chosen and informative. I'd have liked some quiz or "test".
Thanks for the good course.
Anonymous

Excellent course.
Thought proving and learned a lot about how cultures have changed due to covid and open my eyes to the world around me
Carolyn Brown

This course enabled me to explore and reflect on many questions and experiences I have had with end of life care, death and dying, as a community occupational therapist (OT) and as a human being. I was able to challenge myself and others' ideas, y…

This course enabled me to explore and reflect on many questions and experiences I have had with end of life care, death and dying, as a community occupational therapist (OT) and as a human being. I was able to challenge myself and others' ideas, yet also learn and grow from this course. Many ideas were congruent with my role and philosophical, theoretical and professional frames of reference as an OT.
I found that my clinical reasoning has grown and that what I have done as an , even if not a specialist OT in palliative or end of life care/hospice care, has been in line with many of the concepts outlined here, despite pressures from time, lack of resources, adapting to COVID-19 and changes to working systems, and all the other things which can affect us at this time.
You do need to be open-minded and non-judgemental to fully benefit from the course. I suspect many people may struggle with this for personal, societal, cultural and/or religious and philosophical reasons. But it is worth the struggle! I found that the things we all have to sign up and agree to when we start this course were well-outlined by the University e.g. be respectful. I found the comments and discussions by participants most enlightening and useful, even if I did not agree with them all, and certainly thought-provoking.