Supporting patients with end-stage chronic disease in rural Australia: Unveiling gaps Challenges in accessing palliative care are most profound in rural areas due to workforce constraints, service structures, and lack of viable alternatives. A/Prof Rebecca... Read more... 19/03/2024 | Blog | Community | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals Tags: End-of-Life Care | Advance care planning | Palliative Care | rural palliative care | Advance chronic disease Views: 1406
GPs and home-based palliative care Professor Elizabeth Reymond discusses the pivotal role that general practitioners have in helping patients experience a ‘good home death’ and recommends tools to... Read more... 18/03/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | GPs Tags: Home care | Advance care planning | Palliative Care | Community | General practitioner | GP Views: 1901
Looking back and looking forward: Using life story work to facilitate advance care... In recognition of Advance Care Planning week (18-24 March), our team asked Craig Sinclair and Rebecca Walton, researchers currently looking at the effectiveness of advance... Read more... 6/03/2024 | Blog | Older Australia | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Advance care planning | advance care planning week Views: 1243
Helping people share what matters most: Planning for future health care Advance care planning ensures the preferences of aged care recipients for future care are known and respected by those providing this care. In this blog, Dr Catherine Joyce and... Read more... 1/03/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Advance care planning | advance care planning week Views: 1824