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Carers
- Cultural wishes respected in end-of-life care
- Palliative care at home in the bush
- Marc’s Story – His journey with Lissencephaly
- Talking about end-of-life care in ICU
- The other half of palliative care
- CARERHELP: a resource dedicated to supporting those caring for people near the end of life
- Keeping a library open through the window
- caring@home further supports community palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Dying to Yarn breaks down barriers
- Supporting palliative care patients who choose to die at home
- Sharing Sam’s end-of-life story to help others…
- The day before Sarah Williams died her family made her wedding wish come true
- Life after Jarrod… Briony Lyle takes on her next big challenge
- Into the Dreaming
- Christmas without mum
- National art competition highlights what matters most during the holiday season
- Learn about palliative care worldwide
- What the history of medical science can tell us about choosing to better manage illness with palliative care
- Why greater investment in palliative care could lead to economic benefits
- We can’t build more hospitals
- Young carers need to take a breather
- The woman turning children’s disabilities into super powers
- Bear Cottage was our lifeline
- The strength of community
- Lucinda Barry is Dying to Talk during DonateLife Week
- Memories are timeless treasures of the heart
- Why Opioid Medicines are Important for Improving Quality of Life in Palliative Care
- Last Wishes – The Afterlife Organiser
- With the end in mind – Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
- With the end in mind – Palliative Matters readers treated to excerpts from the book.
- Living with COPD
- At the End of Life’s Journey: A time to bring everyone together
- Is there such a thing as Person Centred Care?
- Remembering mum on Mother’s Day
- PCA celebrates International Nurses Day 2018
- Palliative care funding needs reform
- Difficult decisions: voices and choices for young people at end-of-life
- A mother’s journey with a silver lining
- Be In Charge Of Your End-Of-Life Care Wishes
- Bedside Stories – Learning to Listen
- Calvary Launch Virtual Research Institute
- A Story About Stage Four Lung Cancer
- Year 12 Student Continues Traditions At The Mary Potter Foundation
- AHHA Palliative Care Online Training Portal Relaunched
- When a death leaves love nowhere to land
- Royal Flying Doctor Service is dying to talk in the bush and map gaps in palliative care services
- Royal Flying Doctor Service highlights sorry state of palliative care access in remote areas
- Having cared for her husband as he was dying, Sarah Winch explains how to do it well
- India’s father of palliative care gently shakes Australia with his insights and wisdom
- Bereaved volunteers support others experiencing grief through new national support line
- Man on a mission to reduce unnecessary suffering
- Kelly Arthurs is dying to talk
- ‘What will I wear to your funeral?’ celebrates the good in goodbye
- ‘What will I wear to your funeral?’ – Palliative Matters readers treated to excerpts from the book.
- Michelle Hooke is dying to talk using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Discussion Starter
- From cop outs to dirt naps – panel discusses fallout from our reluctance to discuss death
- Dress made of tea bags wins Palliative Care Australia art competition
- Program supports staff to initiate conversations about intimacy
- Distinguishing between sadness and depression at the end of life: a significant challenge tackled by a leader in palliative care
- Personalised bears made from a loved one’s jeans are always ready for a cuddle
- Talking about your life can help the process of accepting death
- Rebecca Wessels is dying to talk using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Discussion Starter
- Cast your vote to help determine worthy winner of online art competition
- Kerrie Noonan: a life committed to changing the way we do death
- Nurse committed to residents being able to die at home, away from hospital emergency departments
- Caring for my beautiful husband as he died and through the days that followed
- To focus on the needs of others brings great pleasure and relief
- Life after a big loss: school or prison? Meet grief therapist Liese Groot-Alberts
- Living with dementia: carers’ experiences in their own words
- Letter captures zest for life that dementia has stolen
- Artistic merit only part of the picture: judge looking for heart and soul
- Winning haiku shines with wisdom, reflecting value in volunteering
- Mobile hairdressers, cleaners and counsellors: website offers practical gifts for the bereaved
- Book review – A Matter of Life and Death: 60 voices share their wisdom
- Art competition to focus on connection with community
- Ten questions help consumers compare how residential aged care services provide palliative care
- Consensus on principles for palliative and end-of-life care in residential aged care
- Sue Pieters-Hawke shares how residential aged care enhanced Hazel’s quality of life and death
- Goodwin Aged Care steps up to provide proactive palliative care in-house
- Maggie Beer offers fresh thinking on food for residential aged care
- Aged care facility takes responsibility for ensuring residents achieve best possible end-of-life care
- Mum celebrates her son’s life while remembering his death
- Budget offers new support to coordinate end-of-life care
- Make room for grief and loss to support bereaved mums this Mother’s Day
- Visiting palliative care nurse gives residential aged care facility confidence to care for dying man
- Maggie Beer Foundation tour inspires chefs in residential aged care
- Tool supports staff to discuss elderly people’s spiritual needs
- Zoe Mitchell is dying to talk
- Death can strengthen love and connection: Dr John Endacott
- New animated video captures insights from bereaved parents
- New funding brings first young adult hospice one step closer to reality
- Molecular air and other tasty treats to feature in new palliative care cookbook
- Recipe: Watermelon, lime and mint foam
- Recipe: Yoghurt cubes
- Films capture the experience of caring for someone who is terminally ill
- New resources help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people talk about end-of-life care
- Second chance to learn about death and dying through free online course
- Community’s exceptional care for dying mother inspires charity to ensure others receive the same
- New resource explains what palliative care offers before misperceptions get in the way
- From music into silence; new documentary celebrates Peter Roberts’ courage and heart
- Russell Armstrong is dying to talk
- Supporting parents after the death of a baby, as they grieve a myriad of lost wishes
- Dr Philip Lee is dying to talk
- Clothes fit to be buried in; Pia creates garments for the grave
- Walking and talking helps bereaved to process grief
- From little things, big things grow; how moving stories sprouted from salvaged seedlings
- Gramping proves a healing form of glamping for bereaved grandparents
- Accompanying my mother through the process of dying as her carer, confidant and friend
- Tasmanian program supports people wishing to die at home
- Having baked for royalty and blocked floods, Joe loves his unpaid job
- Meet Palliative Care Australia’s new President, Dr Jane Fischer
- Professor Yates reflects on time as President of Palliative Care Australia
- Learn to use touch in caring and strengthen your relationship
- How to write a loved one’s life story; the ultimate gift
- Making meaningful rituals to celebrate the loved ones you miss
- Catch an early-bird registration and learn how to build a compassionate community
- Treating troubled family dynamics reduces complicated grief
- Spiritual care at the end of life; how to reduce distress as we face dying
- Making a dying parent’s life as good as possible; experiences of a teenage carer
- Patients help actors to bring cancer stories to the stage
- Lina Ayoubi is dying to talk
- How to uphold patient dignity at the end of life
- Singing to relieve suffering
- Dr Sarah Winch is dying to talk
- Medicinal cannabis in palliative care; update from trial leader
- Preparing a loved-one’s body for a family-led funeral
- Documentary filmed at Sydney hospice screens on world stage
- Cooling options give families more time to say goodbye
- When the christening and funeral are one
- Arun Ramchand is dying to talk
- Six things to know during National Carers Week
- Real estate tips from the terminally ill
- Ara Cresswell is dying to talk
- Focus building design on the patient experience to enhance quality of life
- What to say when someone is dying; tips from a master in her field
- Providing palliative care for people who are homeless; attempting to break down barriers
- Professor Lindy Willmott is dying to talk
- Frangipani, flame tree, or lemon myrtle; what tree would you like to become?
- Anchored to withstand one of life’s tsunamis
- Lisa Herbert is dying to talk
- Working through grief inspires healing artwork
- Long-term value for all in accepting offers of help
- Treading lightly in death: natural burials enriching on many levels
- Molly Carlile AM is dying to talk
- Video builds carer confidence in giving injectable medications
- Terminally ill offer personal insights on living, dying and dreams
- DVD offers practical tips and instruction for carers
- An end-of-life companion: how one volunteer added quality of life right to the end
- Symbolic works created with ink-filled syringe capture life and offer therapy
- New book captures personal experiences of palliative care
- The most intimate thing I’ve done in my life: Kylie’s story
- It was a privilege to care for my brother: Nola’s story
- Engage communities and train carers to provide end-of-life care: UK expert
- Training communities to be compassionate and contribute: how an expert from Spain is making it happen
- New website makes complex end-of-life medical laws easier to navigate
- Stressful, challenging and deeply rewarding: supporting my loved ones to die at home
- Shannon’s early death inspires support for others without access to after-hours specialist palliative care
- Julie McCrossin is dying to talk
- One third of elderly patients receive futile treatment before they die
- Master of nurturing the soul, Dr David Brumley achieves OAM
- Dr Lynn Weekes is dying to talk
- Fresh insight into why doctors sometimes provide futile treatment
- Sue Collins is dying to talk
- New course on death, dying and palliative care
- GP tackles her fear of death
- Dr Ranjana Srivastava is dying to talk
- 10 minutes with Laura Chahda
- Frail elderly put new pressure on prisons to provide palliative care
- Maggie Beer is dying to talk
- Death Over Dinner launched in Australia
- Palliative care is for people with chronic disease, not just cancer
- Jean Kittson is dying to talk
- New step-by-step guide supports discussion of end-of-life wishes
- The important conversation we are saving for later
- 10 minutes with Anne May
- New film highlights the good living that can occur in lead-up to death
- 10 minutes with Julianne Whyte
- Vicarious trauma: a young nurse shares her experience
- Conversations critical in shaping how we live and die
- Solace in finding somewhere meaningful for ashes
- Small community achieves inspiring new hospice-in-the-home service
- Coping with loss and grief over the festive season
- Soul shines through in photos of residents with dementia
- Of love and loss without palliative care
- Expert opinion: the euthanasia debate
- 10 minutes with Mike Kennedy
- 10 minutes with Tatiana Slezak
- Euthanasia no substitute for palliative care
- Beyond aromatherapy: what you need to know about me as I die
- 10 minutes with Bridget from Decision Assist
- New plan to get people with dementia to start planning earlier
- Little Stars to raise awareness of paediatric palliative care
- Separate terminally ill patients and carers for psychosocial assessments
Health professionals
- A nurse who laid the foundation for 40 years of palliative care in Australia
- “Nurse practitioners in aged care are the future”
- Research project to evaluate impact of handover bags: A 10-minute survey
- Hoping for the best and planning for the rest
- Collaboration in a time of stress and uncertainty
- Music Therapy at home during COVID-19
- Palliative care champions recognised
- 2017 National Palliative Care Awards catchup: QuoCCA
- 2017 National Palliative Care Award winners… where are they now? Peter Jenkin
- 2017 National Palliative Care Award winners… where are they now? Anna Holliday
- 2017 National Palliative Care Award winners… where are they now? Dr Diana Ferreira
- Culture and community drives Dr Christian Ntizimira’s passion for palliative care
- Sarah Richards of Marrawuy Journeys is Dying to Talk
- Townsville Palliative Care Service Hosts Sixth Year Medical Students
- New training in assessing and addressing palliative care and advance care planning needs
- Music therapy’s magic moments; reconnecting patients with emotions and memories
- Checklist provides another inspired step forward for palliative care in residential aged care
- New tool to support urgent palliative care needs being met first
- Seven extraordinary performers in palliative care acknowledged with national awards
- Palliative care experts discuss implications of voluntary assisted dying
- Palliative care expert supporting paramedics to deliver better patient outcomes
- Tool helps residential aged care staff to identify palliative care needs
- Primary health network funds end-of-life training for residential aged care staff
- Discuss cornea donation with palliative care patients during DonateLife Week
- Dr Alex Jadad is on a world-wide mission to achieve a pandemic of health, happiness and love
- Talk-based therapies relieve pain by changing cells in immune system
- Discount rate for students keen to attend national palliative care conference
- Charcoal art works explore process of dying and impact on staff
- National health statistics highlight inequitable access to palliative care
- Going in peace: does every old person need intervention?
- Calls for humanitarian disaster responses to include palliative care
- New trial tracks difference palliative care specialists can make in residential aged care
- Handover bag concept offered nationally as sensitive way to return possessions
- Palliative care nurse recognised for excellence in Aboriginal health
- Interior designer volunteers to make ward uplifting and homely
- Honest communication paramount for patients dying expected deaths in hospital
- WA prison staff keen to improve palliative care knowledge
- Delivering culturally appropriate care in the Kimberley
- Palliative care’s unwilling film stars discover value in being videoed
- Palliative care doctor shares highlights of working in Broken Hill
- Study highlights value in aged care residents having access to specialist palliative care
- 10 minutes with Nicolette Powell
- Free online end-of-life education targets hospital staff
- First national guidelines for spiritual care in aged care
- 10 minutes with Dr Diane Meier
- Doctors encouraged to proactively manage end-of-life care
- Palliative Care Australia welcomes new Affiliate Member
- Going the extra mile to supply palliative care medications
- New palliative care uni courses focus on mental health
- Bold new proposal tackles palliative care’s core challenges
- Community palliative care nurse highlights value of mentors
- Dying at home a more likely option for people living in Perth
- 10 minutes with Karen Conte
- CALD communities engaged in end-of-life discussions
- Non-clinical outcomes relevant to value in palliative care
- 10 minutes with Nikki Johnston
- Palliative care expert to advise new Severe Behaviour Response Teams
- Use of palliative care services doubles over the past decade
- New research highlights benefits of music therapy
- Australian grant winners focus on patients with secondary breast cancer
- New medication list for GPs supporting people who wish to die at home
- Break the taboo and start talking about death, dying and bereavement
- National guidelines needed for palliative care referrals
- Hidden curriculum erodes medical students’ compassion
- Victorian Health Minister announces new end-of-life framework
- New thinking required on physiotherapy referrals for palliative patients
- From plastering to palliative care – one happy tradie’s big career change
Patients
- Dance makes it all better (almost): remembering Jules Domigan
- 17 year old student undertakes research to understand the Australian palliative care system
- Tina Pidcock is dying to talk using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Discussion Starter
- Christopher McGowan is dying to talk
- Amy Sagar is dying to talk
- Checklist helps people with COPD assess quality of life
- The power of touch from life’s beginning to end
- Blackbirds express complex degrees of acceptance
- Celebrating the role of shrines in storing memory and hope
- My guardian angel has fallen but will fly again
- Beauty to be found in bushfire’s wake
- Much joy to be found on life’s bumpy road
Uncategorized
- Hundreds of palliative care professionals to meet at virtual conference
- Palliative care packages give comfort to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- A good death, a good life
- Singing Sunflowers – A message of love for children receiving palliative care
- Artists show how palliative care really is more than you think!
- Serving up care and support at the dinner table
- Australians face surge in palliative care needs
- Connecting in times of crisis
- Advocates highlight palliative care as “essential component” of healthcare at WHO Executive Board meeting
- Local pharmacy becomes community hub in bushfire emergency
- Getting by with a little help from our friends
- To die well, we must talk about death before the end of life
- Perth artist turns dream into winning entry
- WA media veteran Di Darmody set to bring palliative care stories to life
- Championing palliative care through collaboration
- Life after ‘Death & Dying’: How Ken Ross is keeping his mother’s legacy alive
- A place to make memories
- Making informed choices for what you want
- A man on a mission: How Dr Jordan Nguyen is mixing science and storytelling to build a better future for us all.
- What will emerging technologies mean for the future of palliative care?
- Living and dying in the place that matters most
- A Lasting Tale
- Cassandra Thorburn – Living life without regret
- Ten things I’ve learned about death since losing my Dad
- Palliative Care 2030: Working Towards the Future of Quality Palliative Care for All
- New resources to support people living with dementia
- Free education for health clinicians about end of life law in Australia
- Kimika Lee recognised for her leadership in the community
- Learn, connect and collaborate at next month’s Palliative Care Research Colloquium
- Find it hard to express end-of-life wishes? Try new online activities, designed to help
- World Hospice Day
- Simple list improves community access to palliative medicines
Volunteers
- “Everywhere I take the baby alpacas, people smile”
- 2017 National Palliative Care Award winners… where are they now? Roger Lush
- Nursing student’s passion for palliative care
- Maddie is part of our family
- Volunteer who sings from the heart rewarded with valuable life lessons
- 10 minutes with Bernadette Gallagher
- Small velvet hearts made with love and laced with meaning
- Mother of five uses her experience to help others
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News
- 19OPCC Continuing Professional Development Scholarships announced
- 2019 Art Competition: To Infinity & Beyond
- 2019 Federal Election Statement
- A Person-Centred Approach to Palliative Care in Aged Care
- A Virtual Morning Tea with Special Guests
- ACPCWG newsletter – Issue #1
- Annual General Meeting Outcomes
- Answering that important question – What is palliative care?
- App for Carers – Consultation
- Artificial Intelligence – friend or foe?
- Australian palliative care workers recognised
- Better Care for Children with Shorter Lives
- Calls For Palliative Care Reform In Post COVID-19 World
- Camilla Rowland appointed CEO of Palliative Care Australia
- Canberra National Palliative Care Strategy Workshops
- Changes to PBS for palliative care opioids restrictions a major relief
- Clearly articulated, robustly implemented. The Aged Care Quality Standards must include palliative care
- Conference Update Wednesday 2 September 2015
- COVID-19: projecting compassion through the barrier of PPE
- COVID-19: Why palliative care matters!
- Dia de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead
- Discussing the palliative care needs of people living with dementia
- Ensure Equitable Access – palliative care is a universal human right
- Ensuring palliative care is core business for aged care – Professor Meera Agar
- Experts quizzed on how to help rural and remote communities learn about dying
- Fact Sheet Developed – standards
- FECCA & NARI Roundtable
- Final Footprints video starts important but challenging conversation on ‘death and dying’
- Full 19OPCC conference program now live
- Fund in full – we can’t implement if we don’t invest
- Government urged to increase investment in palliative care
- Have you nominated your palliative care champions yet?
- Hidden curriculum erodes medical students’ compassion
- Holiday Closure
- Importance of advance care planning
- Indigenous palliative care needs an Indigenous approach
- Integrating palliative care into COVID-19 planning
- Invest Challenge Change – Oceanic Palliative Care Conference impacted and informed by COVID-19 pandemic
- Little Stars to raise awareness of paediatric palliative care
- Managing haematology and oncology patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: interim consensus guidance
- MBS telehealth items during COVID-19
- Medicare Benefits Schedule Review
- Meeting with Japanese delegation
- Mind the Data Gap: We can’t improve what we don’t measure
- National guidelines needed for palliative care referrals
- National Health Reform Summit
- National Palliative Care Community Survey Snapshot
- National Palliative Care Strategy 2010 Evaluation Workshops
- National Palliative Care Week 2019
- National Palliative Care Week 2020 Launch
- New campaign launches to challenge perceptions about palliative care
- New conference scholarship program an investment in palliative care workforce
- New paper warns of COVID-19 impact on grief, bereavement and mental health
- New thinking required on physiotherapy referrals for palliative patients
- New video for health workers illustrates culturally safe advance care planning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Nick Champion
- Nominate now for the National Palliative Care Awards
- Nominations open for National Palliative Care Awards
- NPCW Parliamentary Friends of Palliative Care event
- NPCW Parliamentary Lunchbox
- OPCC call for abstracts open
- Paediatric end-of-life care roundtable
- Paediatric Palliative Care Symposium
- Palliative Care Australia seeks new leader
- Palliative Care interview – ABC 774
- Palliative Care must be a priority for all Governments
- Palliative care must be considered ‘core business’ in aged care
- Palliative care must become core business in aged care – media release
- Palliative care needs to lead the way to get the community talking about dying
- Palliative Care Online Training
- Palliative Care recognised in Aged Care Royal Commission Recommendations
- Palliative care training for every health and aged care worker
- Palliative care… it’s more than you think!
- Palliative carers should get social – expert
- PBS Schedule review to ensure access to medicines for palliative care patients
- PCA advocacy for appropriate use of opioids for palliative care patients
- PCA and BCNA Secondary Breast Cancer Grant Video
- PCA calls for expanded telehealth capacity for palliative care
- PCA launches new Self-Care Matters resources to help support those who care for others…
- PCA lodges submission to the Aged Care Royal Commission
- PCA welcomes palliative care focus in aged care program redesign
- PCA’s Annual Report 2015-2016
- Personal connection during COVID-19
- Planning for the dark side of the pandemic
- Primary Health Care Review
- Private Health Insurance (PHI) Roundtable
- Prof Meera Agar elected as Palliative Care Australia Board Chair
- Public consultation on private health insurance
- Reform in opioid regulation should not be at the expense of palliative care patients
- Register to attend PCA’s Self-Care Matters online launch
- Research study on allied health in palliative aged care
- Response to RC recommendations welcomed, but more funding needed for Australia’s rapidly aging population
- Royal Commission: Palliative care is core business for aged care
- Royal Commission’s call for greater investment in palliative care a significant first step toward better outcomes for all Australians
- Separate terminally ill patients and their care givers for psychosocial assessments
- Service Delivery Review Communique #1
- Service Delivery Review Communique #2
- Service Delivery Review Communique #3
- Service Delivery Review Communique #4
- Silver Chain Consumer Engagement National Reference Group Meeting
- Simple list improves community access to palliative medicines
- Statement on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Support Australians who are Dying to Talk
- Survey shows Australians not planning for one of life’s certainties
- The key role of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 tsunami of suffering
- Transition to My Aged Care
- Updated National Palliative Care Strategy
- Victorian Health Minister announces new end-of-life care framework
- Video: Access to palliative care
- Video: Discussions on Medicinal Cannabis
- Vital Next Step: PCA welcomes five year Palliative Care Implementation Plan
- Voluntary Assisted Dying: Guiding principles for those providing care to people living with a life-limiting illness
- What do we need to be fit for the future?
- What matters to you, not what is the matter with you
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2019
Events
- A Virtual Morning Tea with Special Guests
- Adelaide – Palliative Care South Australia State Conference
- Adelaide – Palliative Care Volunteers Conference
- Adelaide – Palliative Care: Research for the non-researcher
- Adelaide – Respiratory Illness and Palliative Care
- Archive Event Test
- Australian Palliative Care Conference
- Brisbane – Palliative Care Nurses Australia National Conference
- Brisbane Community Expo: Good Life, Good Death Expo
- Bunbury – Compassionate Communities Symposium
- Canberra – High Tea at The Lodge
- Canberra – NPCW – Parliamentary Friends End of Life Group
- Canberra – NPCW Parliamentary Lunchbox
- Canberra – palliAGED Launch
- Canberra – Parliamentary Friends End of Life Group
- Canberra – PCA Patron Morning Tea
- Compassionate Communities Tweet Chat
- Deeble Institute Workshop
- Having a Yarn – Final Footprints – Live Webcast
- June Tweet Chat – Children & Adolescents
- LGBTI Communities Forum: Palliative care and planning for your care
- Melbourne – Palliative Care Victorian Volunteer Conference
- Melville – Compassionate Communities Symposium
- National Close the Gap Day
- National Palliative Care Grant Recipients’ Forum
- National Palliative Care Week 2017
- National Palliative Care Week 2021 Events
- NSW Launch of National Palliative Care Week
- Pall Care Tasmania: Building Compassionate Communities Forum
- palliAGEDnurse App Launch
- Palliative Care ACT Annual Fundraising Dinner
- Palliative Care Australia National Awards 2015
- Palliative Care SA: Dying to Talk – Rural Tour
- Palliative care through an economic lens
- Palliative Care Tweetchat
- Palliative Care Tweetchat – 10 December
- Palliative Care Tweetchat – 28 January 2016
- Palliative Care Tweetchat – 5 November
- Palliative Care WA Forum Series
- Parliamentary Friends of Palliative Care virtual event
- PCA Oceanic Palliative Care Conference
- Practicalities of Dying | Funerals – Tweetchat
- Self-Care Matters online launch
- Social Determinants of Health Equity, National Policy Forum
- Sydney – ANZSPM Conference 2018
- Sydney – In Conversation : Death & Dying
- Tweet chat – grief and loss
- Tweetchat ‘Caring for the Carers’
- Tweetchat – Living Well With Chronic Illness
- Tweetchat: Celebrity deaths
- Tweetchat: Palliative care yarning
- Western Australia – Annual Palliative Care Breakfast 2017
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2015
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2016
Resources
- A Family Companion
- Care Team Contact List
- Carer Symptom Management Plan
- Children’s Hospices in Australia
- Decision Making
- Finding Reliable Information
- Helping your Partner
- Here for you… things you might like to discuss with the palliative care team (QUT resource)
- Here for you: Things you might like to discuss with the palliative care team about care at the end of life (QUT resource booklet 2)
- Looking after yourself while caring for your child
- Selecting a Funeral Director
- Sibling Support
- Siblings and Grief
- Spiritual, Religious and Cultural Wishes
- Supporting someone who is caring for a seriously ill child
- Supporting someone who is grieving the loss of a child
- Teachers supporting students at school
- What to do if your child dies at home
- What to expect in the final days
- Where will my child be cared for?
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