Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief: Support and Resources

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief is an alliance of people and organisations working to make Scotland a place where people help each other through the difficult times that can come with death, dying, loss and care.

We provide networking opportunities, resources and practical support to individuals, groups and organisations who want to improve local experiences of death, dying, loss and care. We are particularly interested supporting and enabling communities to identify their own needs and take action to address them.

We are exploring what we can do that would be of most help in current times. As someone who is involved in this area of work (either in a personal or professional capacity) we'd be grateful for your views. The following survey should take approximately 3 minutes to complete.

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* 1. What is your name? (optional)

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* 2. In what role are you filling out this survey?

NHS staff

Third sector staff

Social care staff

Community member

Hospice staff

Volunteer

Death doula

Spiritual care

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Have you signed up to the Scottish Compassionate Community Network?

Yes

Not sure

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Thinking about your work relating to death, dying, loss and care in the local community, which areas do you think you'd most like to focus on over the next year? Tick as many as you like.

planning ahead for ill health and death

bereavement support

funeral poverty and planning

enabling ordinary people to provide practical/emotional/social support to each other

enabling people to learn more about death, dying and bereavement

providing more information about local support available

giving people a voice to influence the design and improvement of formal health and social care services

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Because of current restrictions around face-to-face gatherings, we're thinking about what support and resources GLGDGG can provide online, via video conferencing and through the post. These could be on a range of different topics, as explored in question 4.

What of the following do you think you or your community would be most likely to access? (tick as many as you like)

online lectures, interviews or podcasts with experts on various aspects of death, dying, loss and care

interactive networking opportunities via zoom

bespoke online workshops with experts, eg 'making a power of attorney', or 'sorting out your digital legacy'

online conversation events, eg 'death cafe'

interactive online education modules exploring issues such as dying, caring and grieving

hard copy information resources

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What else could GLGDGG provide that might help you with your local work? Tick as many boxes as you like.

ideas on how to address death, dying and bereavement issues through an online event

access to a professional Zoom account free of charge (with full privacy/conferencing/breakout facilities)

support and advice on how to adopt a community development approach to your work

advice on how to make your work/resources inclusive and accessible

someone to help facilitate your virtual event/meeting

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Which of the following are you able to access?

Zoom

MS Teams

Google Docs/Drive

Vimeo

You Tube

None of these

Other (please specify)

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* 8. How would you prefer to access print resources?

download from website

receive print copies through post

collect print copies

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* 9. Please leave any other suggestions or comments here (please add your email address if you'd like us to get back to you on anything specific):

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey and help us shape Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief activity!