Laughter Care and families of people with dementia in aged care Laughter Care, delivered by The Humour Foundation in Australian residential aged care facilities, involves Specialists engaging with people living with dementia through... Read more... 23/07/2024 | Blog | Community | Patients and Carers | Residential Aged Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | Dementia | Residential aged care | Palliative Care | Dementia care Views: 617
Bridging the gap: Revolutionising specialist palliative medicine training in rural... Chris Sanderson unpacks the underappreciated rural palliative care crisis and discusses how The Rural and Remote Institute of Palliative Medicine (RRIPM) aims to address... Read more... 13/05/2024 | Blog | Health Professionals | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | Palliative Care | Specialist Palliative Care | rural palliative care | Palliative medicine Views: 979
Nurse practitioners: Increasing access to palliative care in residential aged care... Nurses and carers working in residential aged care are under pressure to provide care for people with very complex needs in an environment that often lacks senior staff.... Read more... 3/04/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Residential aged care | Pain management | Palliative Care | Symptom management Views: 2795
End-of-life care for people living with dementia in residential aged care: Strategies... A recent Australian study explored the experiences of 56 residential aged care staff in providing end-of-life care to people with advanced dementia. Madeleine Juhrmann,... Read more... 26/02/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Dementia | Palliative Care | carers | Needs Assessment Views: 1327