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SUMMARY:Becoming a Compassionate Community: Lessons Learned from Eight Canadian Communities
DESCRIPTION:Watch on YouTube\nA Compassionate Community is a community of people who are passionate and committed to improving the experiences of those living with a serious illness, caregiving, dying and grieving. In this presentation, we share lessons learned from two projects focused on implementing Compassionate Communities. We  discuss the Compassionate Community Index survey and how it was used to develop interventions centered on raising awareness and educating the community and interventions that provided practical support for persons living with declining health, including dementia.\nPresenters: \nGloria Puurveen, PhD, Project Manager and Knowledge Translation Lead for the Nav-CARE project\nKelli Sullivan, MA, Research Facilitator, Palliative and End-of-Life research, UBC Okanagan\nKelly Ashford, PhD, Project Manager for EU Navigate Project\nLearn more\n\n
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