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Overview
On this End of Life Care - Challenges and Innovation at FutureLearn, The University of Glasgow by FutureLearn 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.
Key facts
- 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.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...- Remember key elements and discussions in the end of life care challenges that are being faced around the world, including important metrics
- Understand the implications of these issues, debates and metrics for policy making, service organisation, clinical practice and public involvement
- Apply these understandings to specific situations with which learners will be presented in the course materials – through specific micro-case studies – and sharing their own experiences and ideas in discussion with others
Programme Structure
Topics include:
- Defining dying and end of life
- ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ dying
- Hospital care at the end of life
- How communities around the world are creating new ways to deliver palliative care for people with chronic and terminal illnesses – the example of Kerala, in India
- How ‘compassionate communities’ are forming to work alongside service providers to meet the challenges of loneliness, isolation and the experience of ‘social death’ – the example of Clydebank, in Scotland
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 21 days
- 4 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Health Sciences Gerontology View 284 other Short Courses in Health Sciences in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
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.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents49 EUR / full≈ 49 EUR / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents49 EUR / full≈ 49 EUR / full
Funding
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