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Palliative Perspectives

A Respectful Death at Home: Minda and...

People with disabilities often face significant barriers in accessing palliative care, due to poor coordination between disability and healthcare... Read more...

8/04/2026 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Community | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Primary health care | GPs | Nurses | Specialist Palliative Care | Aged Care in home

Tags: Palliative Care | End of life care | Palliative Care Connect | A Respectful Death At Home | Disabilities | Support At Home Views: 155

What matters most when deciding about...

People with advanced cancer often face complex treatment decisions, where small survival benefits must be weighed against side effects and the... Read more...

2/04/2026 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Community | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Primary health care | GPs | Nurses | Specialist Palliative Care | Aged Care in home

Tags: Palliative Care | Advanced Cancer | End of life care | quality of life | Time Toxicity | TIME DCE | Treatment Decisions Views: 117

What can the Clinical Frailty Scale tell us...

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... 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: 358

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy: Exploring...

In this blog, Dr Marg Ross, Senior Clinical Psychologist at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, explores the emerging role of... Read more...

4/03/2026 | Blog | Evidence | Community | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Primary health care | Allied Health

Tags: Mental health | Palliative Care | End Of Life | Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy | Existential Distress | Life Limiting Illness | Depression | Anxiety Views: 445

Palliative care & Parkinson’s: It’s about...

In this blog, Tina Gillespie from Parkinson’s Australia and the Young Onset Parkinson’s Exchange (YOPX) draws on lived experience to... Read more...

20/01/2026 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Community | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Primary health care | Specialist Palliative Care | Aged Care in home

Tags: Palliative Care | quality of life | Parkinsons | Young Onset Parkinsons | Early Support | YOPX Views: 389

Roots, reclaiming and remembrance - how people...

In this blog, Rebecca Lyons, explores how reconnecting with long-held traditions of care, service and community can gently reshape the way we... Read more...

6/01/2026 | Blog | Implementation and Translation | Evidence | Community | Dying2Learn | Diverse Communities | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Primary health care | Aged Care in home | Digital Health

Tags: Palliative Care | Death and dying | End of life care | Death Literacy | Natural Death | Home Funeral | Grief and Remembrance Views: 574

The views and opinions expressed in Palliative Perspectives are those of the authors and are not necessarily supported by CareSearch, Flinders University and/or the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

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