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• Caring & Carers
• · Culture Awareness
Palliative Care Week breaks down misconceptions
Palliative Care has been a big topic in Australia over the last several months due to COVID-19, and this year’s National Palliative Care Week, running from 24-30 May, hopes to clear up some of...

• Advice
• · Culture Awareness
​COVID-19 highlights the importance of Advance Care Planning
Today kicks off National Advance Care Planning Week, encouraging Australians to plan their future medical care, especially during these uncertain times.

• End of Life
ROYAL COMMISSION: Begging to stay in hospital and challenges of palliative care
The fourth day of the Perth hearings for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety listened to a case study about poor pain management and palliative care provided to a man with high care...

• Education & Training
Palliative Care Australia pleased with next Aged Care Royal Commission focus
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety recently announced their focus for the next hearings in Western Australia later this month would be on person-centred care, which has been...

• Advice
Australians not planning end of life care or options
A survey undertaken by Palliative Care Australia (PCA) for National Palliative Care Week, running 19-26 May, found most Australians are not prepared for or avoid planning their end of life options and...

• Education & Training
ROYAL COMMISSION: “Inadequate care” and mismanagement of palliative care
The second week of the third series of the Royal Commission into Aged Care hearings in Sydney started today, with a case study from a Bupa Aged Care facility in Sydney focussing on one...

• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
An Advanced Care Directive can offer peace of mind
SPONSORED STORY – An Advanced Care Directive is an essential part of healthcare. There are moments where a patient is unable to communicate and they could be admitted into an accident and...

• Allied Health
More needed in Budget for dementia support and palliative care
With gaps in vital aged care initiatives following the announcement of the Federal Budget 2019-20 highlighted by peak industry and consumer bodies, dementia and palliative care peak bodies say more...

• Advice
Advanced Care Planning Week encourages tough but important conversations
If you were unable to speak for yourself, who would speak for you? And what health care decisions would you want them to make?

• Caring & Carers
More choice in NSW palliative care support
Thousands of New South Wales (NSW) families supporting loved ones with a life-limiting illness will have more choice about the help they need thanks to an additional 100 palliative care nurses at...

• End of Life
New “one-stop shop” to improve pain management in aged care
A revised and expanded book and additional resources for pain management in residential aged care homes promises to be a “one-stop shop” to help improve care and minimise pain among residents.

• End of Life
Most older Australians unprepared for end-of-life decisions
New research from Advance Care Planning Australia (ACPA) reveals that 70 percent of older Australians are without an Advance Care Directive, leaving no instructions in the event that they’re unable...

• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
Research reveals carers unprepared for end-of-life decisions
Dementia carers require more support and guidance to navigate the end-of-life care for their loved one, a new international study has found.

• Allied Health
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people better supported in end of life thanks to new resource portal
The workforce supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through end of life and palliative care are set to be better resourced than ever before thanks to a newly released resource.

• Advice
• · Education & Training
Palliative care placed in the global spotlight
For one day – as part of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on 13 October – people, organisations and communities across the globe are set to come together to raise awareness and shine...