End-of-life care in dementia: Are we doing enough? In this blog, Dr Janani Thillainadesan and Professor David Le Couteur examine end-of-life care for people with dementia, highlighting the challenges of an unpredictable disease... Read more... 13/01/2026 | Blog | Evidence | Community | Older Australia | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Nurses | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Dementia | Palliative Care | End of life care | Nursing Homes | End Of Life | Geriatrics | Inpatients | Pneumonia | Terminally ill | Science of nutrition Views: 1145
Deciding who decides. How are decisions about care at the end-of-life made in ED and ICU? In this blog, Dr Jayne Hewitt, Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University, explores the challenges healthcare professionals face as they... Read more... 5/12/2025 | Blog | Evidence | Community | Older Australia | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Nurses | HP Education | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Palliative Care | End of life care | Healthcare Professionals | End-of-life decision-making | Withholding treatment | Advance health directive | Substitute decision-makers | Critical care | Emergency care Views: 507
Bringing palliative care expertise to a general medicine ward: Supporting patients and... In this blog, Dr Jianxia Zhai, Lecturer in Nursing, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, STEM College, RMIT University, highlights her research on the impact of embedding... Read more... 2/12/2025 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Community | Older Australia | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Nurses | Allied Health | HP Education | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Palliative Care | End of life care | Patient Care | Palliative Care Nurse Consultant | PCNC | General Medicine Ward | Patients And Families Support Views: 846
Understanding the realities of palliative care in acute hospitals: Insights from... In this blog, Dr Claudia Virdun, Senior Lecturer - Palliative & End of Life Care, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University shares insights from her... Read more... 25/11/2025 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Nurses | Allied Health | HP Education | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Palliative Care | Quality Improvement | terminal care | End of life care | hospital | Acute Hospital Care | Implementation | Multidisciplinary Care | Qualitative Research Views: 773