CareSearch updates

This five-part National Palliative Care Week blog series by Amber Bisset, Mariana Ricci and Kate Swetenham, highlights how the Palliative Care Connect (PCC) service supports people, families, carers, and professionals across South Australia.

Reflecting this year’s theme, the series explores some of the important questions people may face when navigating palliative care, grief, bereavement, and access to support, while highlighting the value of compassionate guidance, clear information, and connection when it matters most.

The CareSearch Project Team has begun an exciting redevelopment of our digital platform, not just a website rebranding or rebuild, but something more fundamental. Over the coming months, we’ll be quietly developing the framework for our system that enable us to move confidently into the future that enhances security, functionality, and access to evidence-based resources.

Our current site will keep providing trustworthy information, resources, and learning tools while the platform redevelopment is underway.

Read the full update from our Director, Professor Jennifer Tieman.

Welcome

We would like to welcome to the Dr Olivia Farrer to the CareSearch including palliAGED team. Olivia has taken on the Senior Research Fellow role leading our CareSearch and palliAGED activities.

Olivia brings knowledge and skills in allied health, aged care and education to our project.

The CareSearchgp app supports GPs in delivering quality palliative care across the life course. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has included the app as an accepted clinical resource. This factsheet (809kb pdf) provides information on the GP app.