The Awkward Conversation We’re All Avoiding (But Really Shouldn’t)
Let’s be real for a moment. We Aussies will chat about absolutely anything – the weather, last night’s footy match, who got voted off the island on reality…
End of Life
Applications Open: Dying to Know Day Community Grants Program
Empowering Your Efforts Designed to support individual and collective action around death and dying, we are empowering your efforts to inspire you to take meaningful action and strengthen…
An Interview with Gordon: Exploring the Unseen Challenges of Caregiving
In a remote corner of Central West Queensland, we met Gordon at the Barcaldine Compassionate Communities Cafe. This encounter took place during our recent journey through…
How to Host a D2KD event – Guide for Beginners
We encourage as many people as possible to consider hosting an event during August as part of the Dying to Know Day (D2KD) celebrations. D2KDay is designed to…
Building Compassionate Communities Toolkit
The Building Compassionate Communities toolkit aims to describe the experiences of these communities and the major stages undertaken to build Compassionate Communities in the hopes that others will…
Researching Compassionate Communities in Australia: A short-term longitudinal study
Compassionate Communities and Compassionate Cities are emerging as international strategies for implementing public health palliative care. There is also a growing body of evidence documenting how these concepts…
End of Life Planning – Your Letters
In the process of creating your end of life documents, you may want to notify the family or friends you have nominated. We have created example templates to…
End of Life Planning – Your Emotional Will
An Emotional Will is all about your legacy, the things you want to convey in terms of your thoughts, values and memories. It is not a legal document,…
End of Life Planning – Your Final Checklist
Not sure where to start with your end of life planning? We’ve developed a checklist to help you get started. It’s a list of the main documents you…
Guiding Grief: Harnessing COVID-19 Lessons in Compassion
Proveda’s Community Manager, Jessie Williams offers some reflections on what we have learnt through the coronavirus pandemic and how we can take these lessons into the future for…