Aged care and palliative care: what’s the difference? For this discussion, aged care refers to the additional care required for an older person needing regular health professional input either in the community or in an aged care... Read more... 17/05/2017 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: End-of-Life Care Views: 2213
Policy is ‘many headed’ and is important in aged care Many people spend the last stages of their lives in aged care, and for that reason Palliative Care Australia believes that end-of-life care should be recognised as core... Read more... 11/05/2017 | Implementation and Translation Tags: Strategy and policy Views: 1776
From APRAC and COMPAC to palliAGED One of the statements we commonly see in research reports and in policy and service documents is a comment about an ageing population. The reality of a demographic change where... Read more... 5/05/2017 | CareSearch Project Tags: palliAGED Views: 1228
‘Before I die…’ Compassionate Communities in action Wandering around your city or town, have you ever seen ‘pop-up’ chalk boards inviting you to contribute your thoughts on an issue affecting us all? If you were... Read more... 18/04/2017 | Community | Patients and Carers Tags: End-of-life conversations Views: 1739