2. Advance Care Planning and Communication Skills for End of Life Care An online learning programme funded by Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex

3. This training package was created in partnership by: With funding from:

4. Why will the programme be relevant to you?

5. Our dying is part of our living! Why will the programme be relevant to you?

6. ‘Ssshh…. let’s not talk about it!’ Talking about dying in a society which denies the very possibility that it might one day happen is not easy!

7. Programme contents Unit : Who should initiate and lead discussions about advance care planning? Unit 1: What do we mean by advance care planning and why is it so important?Unit 2: Legal capacity and advance care planningUnit 3: When should an advance care plan be discussed?Unit 4: Who should initiate and lead discussions about advance care planning?Unit 5: Initiating and conducting advance care planning discussionsUnit 6: Advance care planning with children, young people, and their familiesUnit 7: Advance care planning in learning disabilityUnit 8: Advance care planning in dementiaUnit 9: Advance care planning in care homesUnit 10: Advance communication skills workshops (optional)

8. Taking your learning further

9. The technical bit! Open each narrated PowerPoint presentation and use the forwards and backwards keys to move from one slide to the other when you are ready. Make sure that your speakers or headphones are switched on and that the volume is set to a comfortable level.

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