Oral Presentation: Theme analysis of Whiteboard Series Instagram @MyBestEndings

1. Dying can be fun
The Whiteboard Ini5a5ve
Kathy Kastner @kathykastner

2. Entertainment is Us

3. Pregnant

4. Pa#ent Educa#on tv Networks

5. the tweet chat that changed my life
#hpm
Hospice and Pallia5ve Medicine

10. Demographics
• 60% female, age 28 – 68
• 40% male, age 34 – 72
– Canada
– US
– Mexico
– UK
– Scotland
– Netherlands
– Sweden
– Australia
– Hong Kong

12. Themes
• feeling purposeful
– Reading, learning, serving
others, hiking biking
• aPending to senses
– Birds, water, walking, hugs,
love, fresh air, sex
• being connected
– Listening, family,
socializing, laughing
• looking good
– Hair, full make-up, well-
dressed

13. a snapshot of the person
• Pa#ent’s Whiteboard
picture in their PHR,
EMR
• @MyBestEndings
instagram sparks
conversa#ons
• Helps caregivers to feel
purposeful
• Encourages crea#ve
thinking

14. Interna5onal Public Health&Pallia5ve Care Conference
with Dr Alex Jadad Director of the Ins5tute for Global
Health Equity and Innova5on (IGHEI)

15. Anna 92 years old
Bum eye, two bum knees.

16. Invited as a Pa5ent Expert in ‘end of life’ Educa5on
• Pa#ent Centered Outcomes Research Ins#tute (PCORI)
• WestPark Health Center: Pallia#ve and Suppor#ve Steering CommiPee (2014-2018)
• Interna#onal Conference on Communica#ons in Healthcare (2017/2018)
• MedicineX ePa#ent ( 2013)
• Health 2.0, Pa#ents 2.0 (2013)
Presenter
• Interna#onal Shared Decision Making Conference (2019)
• Cancer and Primary Care Summit (2019)
• Ins#tute for Healthcare Advancement – California (2018)
• Hospice and Pallia#ve Care Ontario (2017)
• Interna#onal Conference on Public Health and Pallia#ve Care (2017)
Author
• Death Kills…and other things I’ve learned on the Internet
TEDx:
• Exit Laughing (2013)
Kathy Kastner