What is Palliative Care

For Patients and Families

• For Patients 
  • About Palliative Care
  • Who Provides Palliative Care
  • Living With Illness
  • Financial Matters
  • Changes Over Time
  • Difficult Conversations
  • Plans and decisions
  • Feelings and Emotions
  • Staying at Home
  • Preparing for the End
• For Carers
  • Carer Role
  • Health Professionals
  • Information and Resources
  • Managing Daily Life
  • Caring: Care Resources
  • Caring: Finances
  • Caring: Practical
  • Caring: Transport
  • Feelings
  • Communicating Well
  • Respite and Support
  • Looking After Yourself
  • Caring at the end
  • Grief and Loss
• For Families and Friends
  • Understanding What's Happening
  • I Don't Know what to Say
  • How to Help
  • Supporting Carers
  • Talking to Children
• Topic Information 
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Anxiety and Depression
  • Complementary Therapies
  • Coping with Grief and Loss
  • Course of Illness
  • Finances and Costs
  • Managing Medicines
  • Pain
  • Symptoms
  • Wills and Funerals
• Specific Groups
  • Aged
  • Homeless
  • Indigenous
  • Intellectually Disabled
  • Multicultural
  • Paediatrics
  • People with Dementia
  • Rural and Remote
  • Young Carers
• Finding Out More
  • Sources of Information
  • Is it Trustworthy?
  • Using Information
  • How Research Contributes
• 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
  • Fatigue
  • Nausea 
  • Pain
  • Sleeping Problems
• Psychosocial, Social, Spiritual 
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Suffering
  • Existential Distress
  • Dignity
  • Social Support
• Patient Considerations
  • Advance Care Planning 
  • Complementary Therapies
• Professional Considerations
  • Palliative Medications
  • Self Care 
• Service Issues
  • Audit
  • Models of Service Delivery
• Specific Populations
  • Aged
  • Aged Care Facilities
  • Homeless
  • Intellectually Disabled
  • Indigenous
  • Multicultural
  • Paediatrics
  • People with Dementia
  • Rural and Remote
  • Young Carers

Finding Evidence

• About Evidence
  • Evidence Based Practice
  • Knowledge Translation
  • CareSearch and Evidence
• Finding Evidence
  • Databases and Resources
  • Learning to Search
  • Search Filters
    • Palliative 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 Literature Search
  • Advanced Search
  • Evaluation Schema
  • Non-Indexed Journal
• CareSearch Systematic Review Collection
• PubMed Topic Searches
  • Create Your Own PubMed Topic Search
  • Information About PubMed Topic Search
  • Technical Notes

Education

• University Courses
• Conferences
• Short 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 Tool
• Research Studies Register
  • Studies by Methodology
  • Studies by Investigator
  • Studies by Topic
  • Current Studies
  • Complemented Studies
• Research Data Management System

Professional Groups

• Aboriginal Health Workers
• Bereavement Counsellors
• Doctors
• General Practitioners
  • Assessing Prognosis
  • Pain & Symptom Management
  • Effective Communication
  • Practical Skills
  • Opioid Information
  • The Dying Patient and their Caregivers
  • Palliative Care Emergencies
  • GP's as Palliative Care Providers
  • The Palliative Approach 
  • Palliative Care in Aged Care Facilities
  • Training Opportunities
  • Getting Help with Difficult Problems
  • GP Resources
  • State Based Referrals
• Nurses
• Occupational Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Psychologists
• Service Managers
• Social Workers
• Speech Pathologists
• Volunteers

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• About the Project
  • Previous Projects
  • Project Groups 
  • Quality Processes
  • Project Dissemination 
  • Acknowledgements
  • Credits
• Project Resources
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• Using CareSearch
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This page was created on 24 May 2008.