Buy your Orange Heart lapel pins here!
The ‘orange heart’ has been seen and used universally as a symbol for care and friendship. It is seen as being ‘heart-warming and encouraging’ and used as a symbol of ‘always being there for me’ – values that connect with palliative care.
It is now the new symbol of the palliative care sector.
The eight ‘sparks’ coming from the heart give it a sense of motion, a beating heart that points to the life palliative care supports; the sparks also represent Australia’s eight states and territories and the role we all play in the delivery of palliative care.
Palliative Care Australia and our members around the country feel that the orange heart captures and represents the warmth and spirit of the palliative care sector, the connection that health professionals and volunteers share with patients and families and the close bonds that form during each person’s unique palliative care journey.
Here’s what people have been saying about the orange heart:
“The heart is what keeps you alive. It’s about living. I think it’s lovely,” – Nurse Practitioner.
“When I first saw the orange heart, I just thought it was the perfect symbol for palliative care because it’s all about care from the heart,” – Cancer patient receiving palliative care.
“It’s a really beautiful thing because it’s not a red heart, the heart being orange symbolises a patient’s perspective it says – I am still a person even through my life is changing,” – Palliative care doctor.
“I thought of love and compassion when I first saw the orange heart, and the kindness that people give one another,” – Palliative care volunteer.
We’d love to see everyone wearing an orange heart to show their support for the people and families receiving palliative care and those who deliver it and encouraging conversations and planning about quality of life at the end of life.
Orange heart lapel pins can be purchased for $5 from PCA and our members around Australia.
Locations where orange heart lapel pins can be purchased:
- Local events during National Palliative Care Week, check our events calendar.
- Palliative Care Australia website
- Palliative Care Queensland, email – hello@palliativecareqld.org.au
- Palliative Care NSW website
- Palliative Care South Australia, email – hello@palliativecaresa.org.au
- Palliative Care Tasmania website
- Palliative Care Victoria, email – info@pallcarevic.asn.au
- Palliative Care Western Australian website
Funds raised are directed towards support, advocacy, and policy initiatives that help deliver palliative care to all Australians.
Thank you for your support.