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Death Cafe

12 May 2020

How to run a virtual death café

Every year in May organisations and individuals up and down the country host talks, screenings, open days and exhibitions, but this year the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed events onl...

Katie Costello

12 May 2020

On the frontline: “Working alongside this virus is tough”

Katie Costello is a Nursing Assistant in the Practical Care Team at St Catherine’s Hospice in Crawley. To mark International Nurses Day and Dying Matters Awareness Week, she shar...

Headset call

11 May 2020

Grieving people think saying the wrong thing is better than nothing, survey finds

Dying Matters Awareness Week launches today. To mark the event Hospice UK has released new findings from Savanta ComRes that show that 72 per cent of those bereaved in the last fiv...

Headset call

11 May 2020

How to plan for the end of life

Psychotherapist Jane Rogers is the founder of Before I Go Solutions, a non-profit that provides accredited training to become an end-of-life plan facilitator, and also helps indivi...

Elderly Couple

07 May 2020

Families are struggling with decisions for relatives with dementia during COVID-19

Families need more help to make quick decisions about the care their dying older relatives with dementia should receive during COVID-19, say UCL researchers, backed by Marie Curie ...

Theo

06 May 2020

Caring for patients during the lockdown

Patients cared for by Havens Hospices in Essex have shared their experiences of care during the Coronavirus lockdown.