Building palliative care capacity with education To meet the public’s increasing demand for palliative care services, especially in community and residential aged care settings, we need to build the capacity of... Read more... 5/09/2019 | Health Professionals | HP Education | InFocus | Education Tags: Education and training Views: 610
Vital advance care planning support for aged care Seventy per cent of older Australians are still without an Advance Care Directive. Given the expected increase in our older population and the focus on person-centred care at... Read more... 29/08/2019 | Health Professionals | HP Education Tags: Advance care planning Views: 571
Recognising the need to upskill Australia’s future aged care workforce Australia’s age services sector is a major employer but maintaining and developing a skilled workforce is a major challenge. Sean Rooney, CEO of Leading Age Services... Read more... 9/05/2019 | Health Professionals | HP Education | InFocus | Education Tags: Education and training | ELDAC Views: 943
palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets: responding to need Across residential and home-based aged care at least 70% of direct care ('hands on' care) is provided by careworkers. Many of the people they care for could... Read more... 6/03/2019 | Health Professionals | HP Education Tags: Education and training | palliAGED Views: 582