Tag: palliative care
2023 Future of Ageing Awards winner: The Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program
The Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program won the Palliative Care category in the 2023 Future of Ageing Awards.
The...
Today is International Nurses Day: Q&A with palliative care nurse Kellie Bradley
Kellie Bradley works for Palliative Care South East in Melbourne’s southeast. She is employed as a Nurse Consultant for Palliative Aged Care...
O’Neill House – a specialised end-of-life care facility
In the first of our 2022 Future of Ageing Awards profiles - we focus on VMCH's O'Neill House in Prahan, inner Melbourne...
Personalising palliative care
In this guest post, Karuna Hospice CEO Tracey Porst shares a poignant reminder of the conversations and choices surrounding the end of...
How ambos could help palliative care patients fulfill their wish to die at home
New research will investigate how paramedics can actively support the preference of a large majority of Australians with life-limiting illnesses to die...
People power: how one community is leading advance care planning
A small community in the Northern Territory is changing the
way in which death is discussed and ensuring the dying wishes of its...
To infinity and beyond: art therapy in palliative care
Palliative Care Australia (PCA) has announced the winners of the 2019 Dying to Talk Art Competition at a special exhibition at the...
Ambulance team granting dying wishes
A dedicated ambulance will grant Queenslanders their dying wishes thanks to a new partnership between the Queensland Government and Palliative Care Queensland.
Meeting end-of-life care needs
Terminally
ill, older adults would prefer to receive higher quality supportive care rather
than aggressive end-of-life treatments to prolong their lives, a UNSW Sydney
study...
Push to engage GPs, practice managers in palliative care sooner
GPs and general practice managers will be targeted in the next stage of HammondCare's $2 million Advance Project, which encourages conversations and planning about...
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