The body of research showing the benefits of Compassionate Communities is growing. Here are some useful published papers and commentaries.
Compassionate Communities
- The role and contribution of Compassionate Communities | 2023
- Supporting the dying a community responsibility | 2022
- Researching Compassionate Communities in Australia | 2020
- Compassionate Communities and end of life care | 2018
- “We are all in this together”: Building capacity for a community-centred approach to caring, dying and grieving in Australia | 2018
- Building compassionate Communities in Australia: Tools for a community-led approach to end-of-life care | The Groundswell Project | 2018
- Compassionate Communities Feasibility Study | NOUS | 2018
- Compassionate communities: An implementation guide for community approaches to end of life care | NOUS | 2018
- Each Community is Prepared to Help: Community Development in End of Life Care – Guidance on Ambition Six | UK | 2016
- Compassionate communities: end-of-life care as everyone’s responsibility | 2013
Compassionate Connectors
- The Compassionate Communities Connectors program: Effect on healthcare usage | 2023
- Rethinking-care-at-end-of-life-The-Compassionate-Communities-Connectors-Program | 2023
- The Compassionate Communities Connectors programme: experiences of supported families and referring healthcare providers | 2023
- Compassionate Connectors program highlights | 2022
- The Compassionate Communities Connectors model for end-of-life care: implementation and evaluation | 2022
- ‘The more you give, the better it is for you. You know the reward is greater than the effort’: the Compassionate Communities Connectors’ experience | 2022
- Compassionate community connectors: a distinct form of end-of-life volunteering | 2022
- The Compassionate Communities Connectors model for end-of-life care: a community and health service partnership in Western Australia | 2020
- Reducing emergency hospital admissions: a population health complex intervention of an enhanced model of primary care and compassionate communities | 2018
Social connectedness and health
- Determinants of Wellbeing: Social Connection | 2021
- State of the nation report: social connection in Australia 2023 | 2023
- Social connection and mortality in UK Biobank: a prospective cohort analysis | 2023
Death and Dying
- Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life | The Lancet | 2022
- An overview of Australian attitudes and behaviours around death, dying and end-of-life planning | Dying to Know Day | 2022
- Beyond Taboos | The Groundswell Project | 2018
- End of Life at Home: Co-creating an Ecology of Care | Western Sydney University | 2015
- Dying Well | Grattan Institute | 2014