Videos

These videos explain the reasons for early palliative care. They are based on detailed research with patients, families, doctors, nurses and other health and care professionals about people’s experiences of living with declining health and dying.

Choose the most relevant video for you:

If you are a health or care professional select 'Early Palliative Care: a video for health and care professionals'

If you are a member of the public and watching on your own select 'How to Live and Die Well: a video for the public, patients and family carers (Individual format)

If you want to faciliate a group viewing and discussion select 'How to Live and Die Well: a video for the public, patients and family carers (Group format)

 

Early Palliative Care: a video for health and care professionals

This video is intended for health and care professionals interested in promoting early palliative care. It is available in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French.

How to Live and Die Well: a video for the public, patients and family carers (Individual format)

This video is intended for individual viewing by the public, patients and family carers. It is also available in Dutch.

How to Live and Die Well: a video for the public, patients and family carers (Group format)

This video is intended for facilitated group viewing and discussion. It is the group format of How to Live and Die Well: a video for the public, patients and family carers.

Strictly Come Dying

This video discusses the different illness trajectories as though each were a dance with a particular tempo and complexity. Just as knowing the dance will help someone dance well, understanding typical physical and emotional sequences of various illnesses help people live and die well.

Using Illness Trajectories - including that of multi-morbidity - to inform person-centred, advance care planning

This video is intended to help general practitioners, and hospital and palliative care specialists to make advance care planning tailored to the course of progressive illness and the person’s wishes.

These videos were produced by:

  • Professor Scott Murray (University of Edinburgh) 
  • Dr Sebastien Moine (Université Paris)
  • Dr Jordi Amblàs (University of Vic) 
  • Dr Kirsty Boyd (University of Edinburgh)

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