Support for health professionals to know more... One part of advance care planning that is often unseen is law. Yet law plays an important role in end-of-life care. Professor Ben White and... Read more... 19/04/2018 | Health Professionals Tags: End-of-life law Views: 2017
National Advance Care Planning Week If you were unable to speak for yourself, who would you want to speak for you? And more importantly, what health care decisions would you want... Read more... 16/04/2018 | Community | Patients and Carers Tags: Advance care planning Views: 1828
End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC)... The number of Australians over the age of 65 is rising, and during the next three decades, the proportion of the population aged over 85 will more... Read more... 11/04/2018 | Health Professionals | HP Education Tags: Education and training | ELDAC Views: 1793
Listen, pause, and breathe – guidance in... A culturally acceptable approach is crucial to delivering quality person-centred palliative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander... Read more... 3/04/2018 | Health Professionals | Indigenous Health Tags: Cultural groups Views: 4660
Centre of Research Excellence in End-of-Life... The pattern of disease, dying and death has changed dramatically in Australia over the last century. In Australia alone almost 160,000 people die... Read more... 28/03/2018 | Evidence Tags: Research Views: 2828
Reflections of my time in Daw House I started out my career as an enrolled nurse and after a few short term positions spent 21 years at Ashford Hospital. While I was there and... Read more... 18/12/2017 | Community | Patients and Carers Tags: End-of-Life Care Views: 2135