Project Introduction
The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will concentrate on providing trainings to healthcare and social care professionals mainly on communications and psychosocial interventions. Holistic training programmes will also be conducted to end-of-life care (EoLC) volunteers, in both face-to-face and virtual format. Besides, public education initiatives will be raised to increase the public awareness on end-of-life care, especially on advance care planning and encouraging communications between patients and the family members. A systematic evaluation will be taken place, not only to evaluate the effectiveness of the afore-mentioned education programmes, but also to evaluate the effectiveness of the end-of-life care service model, which developed by the HKU team, and implemented by the project’s NGO partners.
