提升「死亡識能」－推廣在宅善終的高價值照護
摘要
With the promotion of the hospice and palliative care, good death at home has now become one of the core concept of high-value healthcare. Developing death literacy is one of the best way to achieve this goal. Death literacy means the capacity to obtain, understand and process information related to end-of-life care. Death literacy has four important dimensions: knowledge, skill, experiential learning, and social action. The development of death literacy relies not on traditional education, but also on the accumulation of experience of end-of-life care. Health professionals develop their death literacy when they provide home care at patient's home and accompany the family in the life to death process. Family caregivers develop their death literacy when they cooperate with medical teams and care the dying patient at home. Only when death literacy is cultivated in the whole community that the health promoting palliative care may be pushed forward.