When you ask people where they prefer to die: at home or in hospital, 80% answered at home. However, statistics tell us that 80% end up dying in a hospital or nursing home. In addition, when we know that the neighbor has been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases, why we do not feel comfortable to approach him and offer our love and help. From this data and problems early, founder to analyze the barriers that prevent people fulfill their wishes about the time of death and the community to jointly cope with the terminal, death illness and loss. On this basis, they built a model of intervention that goes beyond palliative care, although they are included.
Compassionate Community model, which met on my last trip to the space country, a tool for community development, which also makes me think that Public Health did not consider the welfare usually at the end of life, as part of health promotion.
In a country like Spain, where unfortunately we do not have adequate palliative care, it would appear that should not discuss the "next level." However, we must begin with the following ideas:
In our society, there is a clear tendency to delegate the end of life for professionals such as doctors , nurses, psychologists, social workers, lawyers, etc., or priest, without the assumption of secular (in a double sense: non-professional and non-religious).
Death is medicalised. In the past, however, people live and die beautiful surrounded and supported by their own, especially for women family and the environment. Priests and doctors have only a supporting role.
Addition, professional care for the dying are often fragmented and disjointed. Very often, lies in a hospital setting, not at primary or community, and therefore, the weakness of any institutionalization. Medicalized and usually do not have the focus of health promotion.
Socio-economic difficulties of access to professional resources (often private, public supply deficit) health insurance is often a source of social inequalities in health.
Most of the dead, did not die within 48 hours, but they have a disease that threatens their lives for one, two or three years. During this period, deal with social problems, stigmatization, loneliness, isolation, discrimination, depression, anxiety, and even to sexual difficulties.
This is a situation that can help prevent or reduce the damage of public health and community development.
After his death, many people have trouble living with the grief associated with losing a loved one and draw the match. review
The pain lasted a long time, even forever.
What is a community full of love
Community care is one that took the death and dying as part of the responsibility collective, as well as for health. Assume this responsibility does not mean giving up the government claim the right resources, but includes it.
When we show compassion for others, we share your pain, share their burden. Many people in the community has experienced many forms of accompaniment death threats dying, facing a serious diagnosis (terminal disease, cancer, dementia, etc..), loss and pain. Both the human losses, as pets (in the latter did not dare to speak, although in children and adults are often the first experience of mourning). We can use the experience to empathize with the suffering. There are a lot of experience (the experience of living with the loss of a loved one, the experience of living with life-threatening illnesses), which can be shared, but often silent and hidden.
Human society, mobilize volunteers and professionals with different functions:
Raise public awareness about the motivating situation and the professionals involved in the killing, and encourage changes in attitudes and behavior through talks, mass media, organizing discussion groups, etc.
Help share experience at the end of life, encouraging people to tell their stories.
Promoting an integrated palliative care model, related to the employees health center and orientation towards health promotion at the end of life, preserve the welfare of the dying and their families, and assist them in their game.
Organize events to raise funds for this purpose issues in second pregnancy.
Loving program monitoring.
