What is a Compassionate Community?
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“A community that realizes that sickness and health, birth and death, and love and loss, occur every day.”
“Its residents know that care for one another at times of crisis and loss is not just a task solely for health and social services. It is everyone’s responsibility.”
“Compassionate Cities are communities that celebrate care for one another during life’s most testing times and experiences.”
Professor Allan Kellehear started the Compassionate Communities movement. He says that dying is not really a medical event. It is an event that happens in a family and community.
If dying is about living, loving and working with a really serious illness until one can no longer do so, most of a person’s day is spent with family, caregivers and friends. Only five to 10 percent of the day is spent with health professionals.
…Dying is not fundamentally a medical event, rather it is an event that happens in a family and community. If dying is about living, loving and working with a life-threatening illness until one can no longer do so, the longer part of that lifestyle occurs outside formal health care institutions…. – Dr. Allan Kellehear
PLANNING FOR YOUR FUTURE CARE. Life can change in an instant! Who will speak for you if you can’t speak for yourself?
Advance Care Planning is a gift you can give to your loved ones. It helps you plan for possible future health care: It’s about conversations. It’s about wishes. Who will speak for you if you can’t speak for yourself?
If you would like to register for one of our free seminars here are some opportunities:
Seniors Centre (call 613 548-7810 and the receptionist will enroll you). 56 Francis Street.
Third Monday of each month from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Kingston Frontenac Public Library
March 28: 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Central Branch, Johnson Street. Register here
April 25: 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Isabel Turner Branch. 935 Gardiner’s Road. Register here
To arrange for a virtual Zoom workshop for yourself or a group: contact info@compassionatekingston.ca.
