Mental health and older adults: working with grief Grief and loss often impact older adults more, which can increase their likelihood of developing mental illness. Felicity Chapman, Mental Health... Read more... 14/09/2020 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Mental health Views: 705
Prioritising advance care planning in COVID-19... As COVID-19 continues to disrupt our health and aged care services, there is a strong case for prioritising advance care planning (ACP) as part of... Read more... 31/08/2020 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Advance care planning Views: 589
Upskilling our aged care staff using the ELDAC... The ELDAC Care Model is a guide to help aged care staff and health professionals meet the needs of older Australians coming to the end of their... Read more... 26/08/2020 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Education and training Views: 569
Psychosocial Care: improving practice for... palliAGED provides palliative care practice and evidence guidance for our aged care workforce. Susan Gravier and Robyn Dutschke, Research... Read more... 2/07/2020 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: palliAGED | Psychosocial care Views: 576
Complexities in advance care planning in aged... Advance care planning (ACP) is one of the main topics that callers to the ELDAC Helpline call for assistance with. Caroline Litster, Research... Read more... 19/05/2020 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: ELDAC | Advance care planning Views: 455
Tackling eye and mouth care during end of life Symptom management is a large component of maintaining a person’s comfort at the end of life, along with supporting spiritual, emotional and... Read more... 16/10/2019 | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care | Aged Care in home Tags: palliAGED | Person-centred care Views: 3981