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Are you living rural and ‘Dying to Talk’?
If you are ‘Dying to Talk’ and engage in conversations about dying matters, a new community engagement project run by Palliative Care South Australia (SA) could be coming to a rural town near you.

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New South Wales receives $100 million boost for palliative care
Record funding has been provided to support people with terminal illness and their families across New South Wales with the State Government announcing a $100 million package for palliative care...

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• · Government
• · Mental Health
Fight for voluntary assisted dying laws continues across Australia
The discussion around voluntary euthanasia laws in Australia continues this week, after Tasmania became the latest to reject voluntary assisted dying legislation.

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Applications open for a scholarship opportunity in palliative care
The week after National Palliative Care week, Palliative Care Australia has announced a new scholarship that will allow aged care workers to learn more about palliative care.

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New online resource supporting provision of palliative care
A new online resource that will provide more information to older Australians about their end of life care was launched in Canberra this week for National Palliative Care Week.

• Caring & Carers
• · Culture Awareness
• · End of Life
Importance of spiritual care for palliative patients highlighted for Palliative Care Week
In recognition of National Palliative Care Week, the national peak body for palliative care, Palliative Care Australia, and the national peak body for spiritual care and ageing, Meaningful Ageing...

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• · End of Life
• · Housing
Palliative care report reveals system is failing rural Australians
Despite a rapid increase in the need for palliative care services in Australia, people living in rural areas are still struggling to access end-of-life care.

• End of Life
Changing the conversation around end of life care
This national Palliative Care week, service providers are working to shift our cultural views on dying.

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• · End of Life
More funding for rural palliative care and a better understanding needed
An internationally recognised palliative care specialist has called for more palliative care funding and equitable access to palliative care services in rural and regional areas, and suggested if...

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• · Caring & Carers
• · Dementia
Addressing the challenges of Advanced Care Planning after dementia diagnosis
Following an extensive study into Advanced Care Planning for people with dementia, resources aiming to address some of the gaps the study found will be officially launched this week.

• Caring & Carers
• · Culture Awareness
• · End of Life
Culturally appropriate resource helps Indigenous Australians discuss end of life
New resources to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people start the discussions about their end of life wishes have been launched this week by Minister for Aged Care and Minister for...

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How final is your final will and testament? Have your say
To help bring family inheritance laws into the 21st century, the South Australian Law Reform Institute is calling on South Australians to contribute to its review of the Inheritance (Family Provision)...

• Culture Awareness
• · End of Life
• · Research
Research to help give vulnerable people a voice about death
A new research project into finding ways to give vulnerable people in our community a voice when it comes to the preparation for their death is underway thanks to a grant worth more than $379,000 from...

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Tasmanian palliative care education to end unless state government steps in
With its one-off assistance package from Federal Government running out, Tasmania’s peak palliative care body is seeking funding from the state government or after 20 years of operation, the...

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Lifting the lid on death and dying
Comedian, performer and writer, and strong advocate for palliative care Jean Kittson is bringing a lighthearted slant to some serious topics at an event aimed at helping people talk about death and...