CareSearch updates

Providing palliative care is an essential part of quality aged care. To support aged care nurses with the basics of palliative care, palliAGED will soon release online introductory modules to complement the highly successful evidence-based Practice Tip Sheets.

A new palliAGED page has been developed to outline the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, including how these relate to addressing the end-of-life care needs of older Australians.

palliAGED has released new pages to support pharmacists in caring for older Australians. The pages feature information and resources on the important role of pharmacists, managing medications, dosing guides, supporting caregivers, education and professional development, and more.

Dying2Learn was an innovative online course developed by the CareSearch Project to help Australians feel more comfortable talking about death and dying. We are developing a Dying2Learn Hub as part of our new portal.

We invite you to have your say on the new hub by signing up as a reviewer and/or answer content polls.

In 2020-2023 we are undertaking a major re-structure to redesign how we connect you with knowledge and resources. One of the new features of the CareSearch portal will be a hub offering resources for diverse communities and groups with specific needs. Help us name the new hub by completing a short poll.

As part of our work CareSearch continuously supports clinicians and the wider community to access evidence-based tools to support palliative care. For many years we have promoted use of the internationally validated SPICT Tool developed to assist with early identification of people with deteriorating health due to advanced conditions or a serious illness.

We are proud to announce that CareSearch is now a platinum partner of the International SPICT Programme.