Supportive care for people with life-limiting chronic conditions is a newish “thing”... In this blog, Dr Tracy Schumacher and other authors, explore how supportive care uses a holistic, multidisciplinary team approach to help people understand their conditions and... Read more... 12/03/2026 | Blog | Evidence | Community | Health Professionals | GPs | Nurses | Allied Health | HP Education | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Palliative Care | End of life care | quality of life | holistic care | Multidisciplinary Care | Supportive Care | Chronic Condition | Chronic Illness Views: 378
What can the Clinical Frailty Scale tell us about planning for death? In this blog, Dr Robin Blythe and Prof. Adrian Barnett examines the role of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) in planning for end-of-life care among older people. While the CFS... Read more... 10/03/2026 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Community | Older Australia | Health Professionals | Primary health care | Residential Aged Care | GPs | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Advance care planning | Aged care | Palliative Care | End Of Life | CFS | Clinical Frailty Scale | Frailty | End Of Life Care Planning Views: 260
Embedding quality in practice: Using the Standards and Palliative Care Self-Assessment... In this blog, Kate Ritchie, Senior Project Officer, Palliative Care Australia, introduced The National Palliative Care Standards and the Palliative Care Self-Assessment (PaCSA)... Read more... 5/11/2025 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Community | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Primary health care | Residential Aged Care | GPs | Nurses | Allied Health | HP Education | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Aged care | Palliative Care | Nurse | Clinicians | GP | End of life care | PaCSA | Allied Health | National Palliative Care Standards Views: 837
Understanding pain and appetite distress in pancreatic cancer: Findings from a... In this blog, Dr Mariana Sousa, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IMPACCT, University of Technology Sydney, shares findings on how we can better support... Read more... 27/08/2025 | Blog | Evidence | Community | Older Australia | Patients and Carers | GPs | Nurses | Allied Health | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | Palliative Care | Pancreatic Cancer | Pain and Appetite Distress Views: 907