European Journal of Palliative Care, May/June 2015, 22(3)144-51
Penny Jones, Kate
Heaps, Carla Rattigan and Di Marks-Maran
In 2013, Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice launched an ACP project to enable hard-to-reach people with life-limiting illness in the London borough of Greenwich, and their carers, to develop an advance care plan. The hospice aimed to recruit and train up to 45 volunteers to support a minimum of 225 people with life-limiting illness. An evaluation of the volunteers’ experiences was commissioned after the project’s first year of operation. This article discusses the development of the project and the findings of the evaluation, starting with a
brief literature review of ACP.
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