What is Palliative Care

Patients and Families  

• About Palliative care
  • What is Palliative Care
  • Referring to Palliative Care
  • It’s Not Just Cancer
  • Who Provides Palliative Care
    • The Role of Health Professionals
    • The Role of Specialist Palliative Care
    • Coordinating Palliative Care
  •  Why Information Matters 
    • Patients' Need for Information
    • Family Carers' Need for Information
• Living With Illness
  • Planning for the future
    • Advance Care Planning
    • Funerals
    • Plans and Decisions
    • Wills
  • Financial Matters
    • Costs of Care
    • Financial Help and Advice
    • Financial Resources
    • Superannuation and Insurances
  • Continuing to Work
  • Changes Over Time
    • Course of Illness  
    • Quality of Life
  • Emotional Challenges
    • When Someone You Care About is Seriously Ill
    • Making Decisions
    • When You Are Seriously Ill
    • The Hard Thing About Being Cared For
    • Would it Help to Talk to Someone?
    • Anxiety and Depression
  • Why is Communication Important
    • Family Communication
    • Talking with Children
    • Communication Tips
    • Difficult Conversations
    • Communicating With Health Professionals
  • Symptoms
    • Pain
  • Complementary Therapies
    • Some of the More Common Therapies
• How to Care
  • Looking after Someone
    • What Is A Family Carer?
    • Family Carer Role
    • Looking After Yourself As A Carer
    • Managing Daily Life
    • Respite
    • Paid Careworkers In The Home
    • Social Support
  • Practical Caring Resources
    • Getting Practical Help
    • Managing Medications
      • Medications Explained
      • Practical Ways to Manage Medications
    • Transport
    • Practical Information and Resources
  • How to Help Families
    • What to Say
    • How to Help The Family Carer
    • When You Don't Live Nearby
    • Family Carer Coordinating Role
  • Children Provide Care Too
• At The End
  • Place of Care, Place of Death
    • Dying at Home
  • Preparing For The End
  • Caring At The End
    • Immediately After A Death
  • Changes At The Time of Death
• Bereavement, Grief and Loss
  • Grief and Sadness
  • Grief and Loss Resources
  • Children and Grief and Loss
  • Loss of a Child
  • Remembering and Recovering
• Specific Groups
  • Homelessness
  • Indigenous
  • Intellectually Disabled
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
  • Living Alone
  • Mental Illness
  • Multicultural
  • Older People
  • Paediatrics
  • People with Dementia
  • Prisoners and their families
  • Rural and Remote
  • Young Carers
  • Living with Advanced Cancer
• Finding Out More
  • Sources of Information
  • Is it Trustworthy?
  • Using Information
  • How Research Contributes
• Print Resources
• DO YOU NEED HELP NOW?

Finding Services

• Palliative Care Services
• National Resources
• Disease Specific Resources
• State Resources
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia 
• Indigenous Resources
  • Web Resources
  • Materials to Order
  • Indigenous Organisations

Clinical Practice

• Physical
  • Appetite Problems 
  • Breathing 
  • Constipation
  • Delirium
  • End-of-Life Care
  • Fatigue
  • Nausea 
  • Pain
  • Sleeping Problems
• Psychosocial, Social, Spiritual 
  • Anxiety
  • Bereavement and Grief
    • Complex Grief
  • Depression
  • Suffering
    • Existential Distress
    • Dignity Conserving Care
  • Social Support
• Patient Considerations
  • Advance Care Planning 
  • Complementary Therapies
• Professional & Service Issues 
  • Audit
  • Models of Service Delivery
  • Self Care
• Specific Populations
  • Aged Care Facilities
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT)
  • Homelessness
  • Indigenous
  • Intellectually Disabled
  • Living Alone
  • Older People
  • Multicultural
  • Mental Health
  • Paediatrics
  • People with Dementia
  • Prisoners
  • Rural and Remote
• Carers and Families
  • Carers
    • Perspectives on Family Carers
    • Supporting Carers
    • Resources For, and About, Carers
    • Young Carers
• Diseases & Conditions
  • Heart Failure
    • Prognostic Issues
    • Symptoms and Patients' Experiences
    • Management Issues
    • Carers and Families
    • Service Issues
    • Heart Failure PubMed Searches

Finding Evidence

• About Evidence
  • Evidence Based Practice
  • Knowledge Translation
  • CareSearch and Evidence
• Finding Evidence
  • Databases and Resources
  • Learning to Search
  • Search Filters
    • About the Palliative Care Filter
    • About the Heart Failure Filter
  • Systematic Searching
  • Searching the Web
• Appraising Evidence
• Applying Evidence
• Generating Evidence
  • Consumer Participation
• Communicating Evidence
  • Dissemination Strategies
  • Health Literacy
  • Writing Well
  • Open Access
  • Publishing in Palliative Care
  • Contributing to CareSearch
• Reducing Evidence Practice Gaps
  • Identifying the Need to Change
  • Implementing Change 
  • Measuring Change
• CareSearch Grey Literature
  • Simple Searching
  • Advanced Searching
  • Evaluation Schema
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Non-Indexed Journals
• CareSearch Review Collection
  • Procedures
• Palliative Care PubMed Searches
  • Create Your Own Palliative Care PubMed Search
  • Information About CareSearch PubMed Searches
  • Technical Notes

Education

• My Learning
• CareSearch Training Modules
• Community Education Activities
• Conferences
• Short Courses
• University Courses
• Web Based Learning

Research Resources

• Conducting Research in Palliative Care
  • Research in Australia
  • Funding Research
  • Ethics
  • Study Design
  • Participant Considerations
  • Recruitment
  • Multisite Research
  • Regulatory Requirements
  • Trial Registration
  • Trial Management
  • Disseminating Findings
  • Resources
• Grants
  • Large Grants
  • Medium Grants
  • Small Grants
  • Grants for Researchers
  • Grants for Facilities and Equipment
  • International Funding
  • Grants Searching Tools
• Research Studies Register
  • Studies by Methodology
  • Studies by Investigator A-J
  • Studies by Investigator K-R
  • Studies by Investigator S-Z
  • Studies by Topic
  • Current Studies
  • Completed Studies
• Research Data Management System

Professional Groups

• Aboriginal Health Workers
• Bereavement Counsellors
• Dietitians
• Doctors
• GP Home 
  • Patients Needing Palliative Care
    • Discussing Palliative Care
    • Monitoring Prognosis
    • Advance Care Planning
    • When to Refer 
  • Managing Symptoms
    • Opioids and Pain
    • Important Skills
    • Support for Carers
    • Managing Emergencies
    • If Patients and Families Aren't Coping
    • Specific Populations
    • Complex Problems
  • Making It Work In Your Practice
    • Medicare Information
    • Prescribing Issues
    • Home Visits
    • In Residential Aged Care
    • For Rural GPs
    • Continuity of Care
  • The Dying Patient
    • Helping You Support Families
      State and Territory Requirements
  • Following Up The Bereaved
    • When to Refer (Bereaved)
  • Professional Development
    • Self Care
  • GP Resources
    • GP Resources by Topic
    • Printable Patient Resources
• Music Therapists
• Nurses Hub Home
  • Clinical
    • Medication Management
      • Evidence for Medications
      • Managing Medications
      • Palliative Medications
      • Prescribing Resources
    • Symptom Management
    • Practical Caring Issues
      • Managing Fungating Wounds
      • Syringe Drivers
    • After Death Care
      • Organ donation
      • Care of the body
      • Religious and cultural considerations
      • After a death at home
    • End of Life Care
      • EOL care pathways
    • Working with Families
      • Working with Families
      • Family Meetings
      • Supporting Carers
    • Communication
    • Complementary Therapies
    • Ethical Issues
      • Resuscitation
      • Nutrition and Hydration
      • Research
      • Assisted Suicide
      • Euthanasia
      • Truth telling and collusion
      • Withholding and withdrawing treatment
      • Palliative Sedation
      • Autonomy
    • Multi Disciplinary Team
    • Self Care
    • Advanced Care Planning
  • Areas of practice
    • Rural and remote
    • Paediatrics
      • Neonates
      • Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA)
    • Non-malignant / chronic disease
    • Multicultural areas of practice
    • Primary care / community
    • Oncology
    • Aged care
      • Residential Aged Care Facilities
      • Dementia Care
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Indigenous
  • Research
    • Research
    • Evidence Based Practice
  • Education
    • Providing Education
    • Undergraduates
    • Professional development
    • Journal club
  • Policy Quality Standards
    • Policy and Planning
    • Standards
    • Quality
    • Public Health Palliative Care
  • Nurses Providing Palliative Care
    • Palliative Care Nursing
    • Competencies and Standards for Practice
    • Working in specialist palliative care
    • Special interest groups 
  • Resources
    • General Resources
    • Websites
    • Books
    • Journals
  • Nurses News
    • What's new for Nurses
    • Nurses [Hub] news
    • CNIN (CareSearch Nurses Information Newsletter) 
    • Nurses Views
  • About the Nurses Hub
    • What is the Nurses Hub
    • Background to the project
    • Nurses Hub Acknowledgements
    • Clinical Disclaimer
    • Nurses Hub Site Map
• Occupational Therapists
• Pastoral Care Workers
• Pharmacists
• Physiotherapists
• Psychologists
• Service Managers
• Social Workers
• Speech Pathologists
• Volunteers
• Professional Connect

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This page was created on 24 May 2008
Last updated 13 May 2011