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Abstract
Animal hospice and end-of-life care are emerging specialities within veterinary medicine which hold considerable potential for development by veterinary nursing professionals. In the first of a two-part series, Dr Susan Gregersen shares what she has learned over the past 10 years of helping more than 6000 pets and families face the challenges of end-of-life care at home. This article explains the importance of focusing on end-of-life care in veterinary practice, and explores the experience of pet euthanasia from an owner’s perspective.
Acknowledgement
The author gratefully acknowledges Jenny Moffett, Educational Consultant, for her invaluable contribution to this article.
Further reading
The International Association of Animal Hospice and Palliative Care (non-profit) www.iaahpc.org.
For more information on IAAHPC and Animal Hospice please email the author, the UK representative of the Association:[email protected]
www.compassionunderstood.com – a new UK online resource in pet loss for pet owners and end-of-life training/CPD for the whole vet team
www.sunsetpet.solutions – the author’s consultancy in improving the end-of-life approach and protocols in veterinary practice
Organisations
www.dignified-departures.co.uk (non-profit)
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Susan Gregersen
Susan studied in her native Denmark and since 2005 has been an entrepreneur, in-home hospice vet and co-founder of Vets2Home GP Mobile Vets, re-launched in 2012 as Peaceful Pet Goodbyes – the first fully dedicated in-home animal hospice service in the UK. Susan is the programme consultant for Compassion Understood www.compassionunderstood.com and the founder of Sunset Pet Solutions www.sunsetpet.solutions, a veterinary consultancy supporting forward-thinking veterinary practices in re-designing their end-of-life approach. Susan has two dogs and two cats, all rescues, four guinea pigs and two collections of aquatics.