End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

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End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation
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End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation
The course End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation is an online class provided by The University of Glasgow through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Explore dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluate new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues.

Course description
  • Learn about new directions and the latest thinking on end of life care
  • 3 weeks
  • Death itself may be certain, but how we die involves many challenges.
  • This course acts as an introduction to The University of Glasgow’s MSc in End of Life Studies.
  • You’ll explore the care we receive when dying, cultural variations around what makes a good death, and the planning and timing of death.
  • As our population ages, new ideas around end of life care emerge. You’ll discover the patterns and trends taking place in palliative care and explore these new approaches from a social science and humanities perspective.
  • 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
  • Analyse current debates on end of life care in ways which lead to comparisons between different settings
  • Evaluate and make critical judgements based on research evidence about existing and new approaches to end of life care and potential solutions to problems identified
  • Create new scenarios for future end of life care based on an analysis of needs, conflicting debates, best practice and the potential for innovation
  • 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 taking The University of Glasgow’s MSc End of Life Studies
  • The University of Glasgow
  • Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities.
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Prerequisites & Facts

End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

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University, College, Institution

The University of Glasgow

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / The University of Glasgow you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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