ELM’s philosophy is we can make a difference to those whose journey is taking them towards the end of their lives.  We do this  through training their carers both  professional or family members.  We train  carers to understand all aspects of end of life care. We firmly believe that awareness and training are the keys to a better quality of end of life.

Our book End of Life the Essential Guide for Caring will be available in February 2010 (Hammersmith Press). The foreword to our book has been written by Ciaran Devane, CEO of Macmillan Cancer Support who states:
 
‘There is much wisdom in the pages of this book. It offers practical advice in a caring way and it is hard to say any of it is more or less important than the rest.  But it is important that those of us who want to improve end of life care understand some of the critical things which can have a disproportionately significant impact on whether someone has a good death, or not.’

ELM’s philosophy also embraces the belief that those who have been bereaved need to access support from the environment in order to have a healthy grieving process and we are promoting the ELM leaf emblem as an external symbol of mourning to replace the long forgotten tradition of the black armband or wearing of black.

The leaf will shortly be available as a brooch or pin through our website.