Information in other languages 

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You can find information about palliative care in other languages on the

Department for Health and Ageing website and the Palliative Care Council of SA website

 

Interpreters are able to help you talk with someone in your own language. The Government has a service that you may want to use. There may be a cost for this.

For day time and after hours services, call the Commonwealth Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.

Translating words
The Victorian Government has a Health translations directory which you can use.

Family and community support
Your family and friends care about you and want to support you. Your family or friends may want to help you talk to health professionals in your own language. However it is often better to use a trained interpreter. Trained interpreters are used to talking to Doctors and Nurses, and can help with complicated medical explanations. If you wish, your family can still be with you when the doctor talks to you with an interpreter, but they won’t have to worry about trying to explain complicated information.

 

Referral to palliative care
Being referred to a palliative care service does not mean that you are giving up. Palliative care is about supporting people to live well with their disease. Many people continue to have treatment such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy at the same time they are getting palliative care.

 

This page was created on 14 May 2008 and is due for review in May 2010
Last updated 8 June 2009