Healthy End of Life Project (HELP)
Project overview
The ‘Healthy End of Life Project (HELP); offering & providing, asking & accepting help’ is a research-informed and evidence-based public health palliative care resource to guide implementation in communities.
Our intention is to promote health in end of life care and to shift social norms around offering and accepting help. We aim to identify and build on local values and structures (community capacities) that will form, maintain and sustain a compassionate community. Such a community will be able to work cooperatively with carers, family, friends and neighbours to support residents who wish to receive end-of-life care in their home, or other community settings.
We recognise that local initiatives need to be shaped by community resources, assets, infrastructure, culture, values and leadership, and that the generation of new and constructive ways to act in communities are collaborative.
Project Resources
- HELP Information Guide [PDF 2.4MB]
- HELP Creating Community Care Networks through Asset Mapping [PDF 747KB]
- HELP My Collaborative Care Plan [PDF 838.9KB]
- HELP research and implementation Progress Report 2018 [PDF 222KB]
- HELP Evaluation Framework
The Healthy End of Life Project (HELP) framework
Offering and providing; accepting and asking for help
We use a strengths-based sustainable community development program, designed to create a collaborative community culture that attends to local end-of-life care needs. Communities are guided through a practical suite of resources on how to work cooperatively with carers, family, friends and neighbours, to support residents who wish to receive end-of-life care in their home, or community setting.
HELP is designed to change two social norms, using two key strategies, based on five healthy end of life principles and seven community development practices in seven areas for community-driven action.
To cite this program: Grindrod, A., & Rumbold, B. (2016). Healthy End of Life Program (HELP): Offering, asking for and accepting help. Creating an End of Life Collaborative Community Culture. La Trobe University Public Health Palliative Care Unit, Melbourne, Australia.
Contact us
Palliative Care Unit (PCU)
HS2 Room 545
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Victoria, 3086
Tel: 03 9479 8815
Email: pcu@latrobe.edu.au