Table 4 Examples of activities

Education and awareness

Trainings: for health professionals, volunteers, caregivers, faith communities, solicitors (to help them discuss death and dying issues with their clients when drawing up wills and advance care planning

Health awareness campaign consisted of skit, pamphlet distribution, poster presentation, giving door-to-door information, and general interaction with palliative team in the village

Workshops & conferences for health professionals, public policy leaders, public

Camp (activities for children, education and interactive session about death and loss)

Publications, video and printed materials

Website creation

Encourage TV and radio coverage promoting the choice to die at home

Exhibition and drop-in stands at large events, libraries, places of worship, social/cultural events

Community Group session in community settings, grief education (in senior housing, churches, assisted living facilities, and businesses)

Direct help, support and care

Supported churches to expand outreach programs

Café Conversation

Psychology students counseling of bereaved people: a partnership with the university

Lead from behind—enable others through coaching, mentoring and encouragement

Resource’s mobilization and linkages

Sharing of individual and community resources

Development and diffusion of pain management resources

Publishing a lighthearted, illustrated trade book and website/blog to make a difficult topic palatable and engaging to a broad audience

Build partnerships and collaborations

Broker interagency agreement for collaboration for care delivery

Building community relationships, external linkages

Implement memorandums of understandings with external service providers

Projects in partnership with schools, aged care facilities and groups, community health services, service clubs, faith communities, local government and neighborhood houses were among the community services and groups

Policy development and lobbying

Create policy documents to guide funders and program planners

Propose fiscal policies to reorient healthcare services for dying, death, loss, and bereavement

Lobby research organizations to prioritize end-of-life research, including community-based participatory studies

Promote lobbying by HIV-positive people in collaboration with hospices for development of specific HIV policies

Insert healthy end of-life principles into existing and new policies alike, and remove unhelpful policies that undermine good outcomes in end-of-life care. Policy settings include local government, community health services, primary health and medical practitioners and community service organizations