Creative Legacy Program
Creative Legacy Program
We have been a proud member of the inaugural Compassionate Communities Australia movement, under the auspices of The Groundswell Project Australia (now owned and operated by Proveda).
Compassionate Communities are both the approach and the outcome for communities, where everyday people start to play a stronger role in the care and support of people as they age, and especially as they near the end of life.
Proveda is committed to being active in the growth of the Compassionate Communities movement in Australia as an important public health approach to end of life, underpinning many of our programs and services.
What happens when you invite artists into an acute palliative care ward?
“It gave me a chance to really express things I don’t think I would ever have talked about before.” Palliative Care patient
In partnership with Liverpool Hospital and the South Western Sydney Local Health District, the Creative Legacy Program combined storytelling and art making on an acute Palliative Care ward.
Through conversation and story-telling exercises, artist captured the life stories of people in the last days and weeks of their life in personalised artworks, which are then given to the patient and their family as a gift of art and legacy.
The program has shown the power of art and conversation to connect people in palliative care to themselves, their stories, and to each other. It has helped place people at the heart of palliative care and has contributed to changing the way Australians do death and dying. is an award winning arts and health experience that
The Creative Legacy program has won awards as an arts and health experience and continues to evolve and contribute to people’s wellbeing.
Interested in this program?
Would you like to help build this community program locally in your local Hospice, Hospital or Residential Aged Care Home?
If you are interested in making a difference to the experience of those nearing end of life, or would like to facilitate a program like this within your organisation in support of the dying and their families, we can offer you advice and training, as well as access to a range of resources.
Resources include a comprehensive volunteer training guide for palliative care community volunteers to effectively introduce the resource to patients and their families, and offer guidance, if required. The resource is formatted as a workbook for participants, if preferred.
Please feel free to order your copy here for the price of printing and postage