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3. Communicating Uncertainty
46:46||Ep. 3Sensitivity Warning: this podcast explores a number of topics related to frailty, death and dying. This podcast explores how clinicians and care professionals can have meaningful, compassionate conversations with people living with uncertainty, while keeping decisions anchored in what matters most to the individual. You will hear practical approaches to proactively introducing Advance Care Planning, ReSPECT and Lasting Power of Attorney, alongside real-world perspectives from across the community, care home and emergency department settings. Contributors share techniques such as clean language, active listening and the power of silence to help build trust, balance expectations and improve communisation with patients, carers and staff. Speakers:Sonia Vaz Fernandes – Consultant Geriatrician & Physician, GHFT / Frailty Assessment Service/Cheltenham Community ServicesTanya de Weymarn – Emergency Medicine and Frailty Consultant, GHFT / Clinical Lead for End of Life Gloucestershire ICB.Amy Harris – Help Team Advisor; Dementia, Diagnosis & Memory Support Service, Age UK GloucestershireSinead Blick – Registered Manager, Ashberry House, Brockworth https://extranet.nhsglos.nhs.uk/enhance/https://extranet.nhsglos.nhs.uk/frailty-dementia-practitioner-toolkit/frailty/a-personalised-approach-to-future-care-planning/
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2. Managing Uncertainty
44:27||Ep. 2Sensitivity Warning: this podcast explores a number of topics related to frailty, death and dying. In this episode, the speakers discuss the importance of clear communication when managing the expectations of patients, families and their carers in an uncertain situation. The speakers also cover personalised care, including advance care planning, the power of language and consider the personalised nature of resuscitation decisions. Speakers:Rob Hirst – Emergency Medicine Doctor, GHFTAbi Griffith – Care Coordinator, Rowcroft Medical Centre.Tanya de Weymarn – Emergency Medicine and Frailty Consultant, GHFT / Clinical Lead for End of Life, NHS Gloucestershire ICB.Samantha Russell – Deputy Manager, Woodstock Care and Nursing Homehttps://extranet.nhsglos.nhs.uk/enhance/https://extranet.nhsglos.nhs.uk/frailty-dementia-practitioner-toolkit/frailty/a-personalised-approach-to-future-care-planning/1. Identifying Uncertainty
48:29||Ep. 1Sensitivity warning: this podcast discusses topics relating to end of life, death and dying. In this episode, the speakers discuss the challenges around identifying uncertainty in different settings, the benefits it can bring and the tools available to support identifying uncertainty. The speakers also explore advocacy, personalised care, holding advance care planning conversations, as well as how joined-up working and information-sharing across the system can support people experiencing uncertainty and their supporters both during end of life and following bereavement. Speakers:Wesley Dean – Registrar, Emergency Department GHFT / Education Fellow / GP, Integrated Care Urgent Care Service, GHCRachel Bucknall – Frailty Matron, Aspen Medical PracticeGlenda Gill – Frailty Matron, Aspen Medical Practicehttps://extranet.nhsglos.nhs.uk/enhance/https://extranet.nhsglos.nhs.uk/frailty-dementia-practitioner-toolkit/frailty/a-personalised-approach-to-future-care-planning/