#92 Getting Your House in Order: Planning End of Life Care with Clare Fuller & Dani Ayre

06.05.24

#92 Getting Your House in Order: Planning End of Life Care with Clare Fuller & Dani Ayre

In the final episode of our series of podcasts,  we continue to explore the model of Getting Your House in Order, describing it as a how to guide for Advance Care Planning. This episode focuses on Advance Care Planning associated specifically with End of Life Care. We explore what is meant by End of Life Care and break down care into the last years, months and days of life.


Key messages from our discussion

  • Advance Care Planning is so much more than about End of Life Care

  • We acknowledge the difficulties that are caused when proactive planning is not in place

  • We explore tools to help identify when a person might be approaching the end of life and discuss the SPICT Tool, GSF and the 

  • It is possible to identify people who might be approaching the last year of life

  • We discuss CPR and when it is no longer an appropriate medical treatment for a person

  • We explore what specific actions could be considered in the last years, months, weeks and days of life

  • We explore services available to people in the last years of life

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Bio: 

Dani is a specialist Palliative Care nurse and Educator currently working at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. She has over 15 years’ experience in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PEoLC). She previously worked in Gibraltar for over 8 years, implementing and leading a Hospice Outreach Service for the community of Gibraltar. She has also worked in the community in Palliative care and Long Term conditions and briefly in the acute sector. 

Dani has furthered her knowledge throughout her career by achieving a Distinction in her PG Certificate at Masters level in Palliative Medicine and completed 2 further Masters modules in leadership and education in Palliative care. She is passionate about raising awareness and educating on Palliative care and the importance of Advance care Planning  not only to Health care professionals and the general public.


 

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Thanks to all my guests for working with me to share their knowledge, experience and stories about Advance Care Planning. I hope you enjoyed listening and have insights to take away; I love hearing your reflections on the series and look forward to reviews on Spotify where you can also subscribe to the series.

Clare

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