The Advance Project – supporting a team approach to advance care planning and... General practices provide ongoing care for a large number of patients with chronic, progressive, and eventually fatal illnesses, and so have an essential role in providing... Read more... 28/05/2019 | Health Professionals | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Education and training Views: 2166
Trajectories of functional decline at the end of life. What do they tell us? It is uncertain how each of us will die and how we will experience the declining capacity to manage everyday activities as we approach death. Dr Deidre Morgan from Flinders... Read more... 16/04/2019 | Evidence | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Research Views: 3273
Dancing Between Two Rooms: Social Workers Engaging with People as they Live with Dying Rapport is an essential ingredient of quality palliative care. What is important to the person as a human being, not as a “sufferer of terminal illness”, will shape... Read more... 19/03/2019 | Health Professionals | Allied Health | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Social work Views: 2669
Working together to improve end of life care for older Australians By working together, aged care, specialist palliative care and primary care providers can improve the care they provide for older Australians. ELDAC’s Facilitators from... Read more... 8/11/2018 | Health Professionals | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: ELDAC Views: 1522