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        • Looking After Someone
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          • Family Conflict In Caring
          • If You Cannot Continue In The Caring Role
          • Looking After Yourself
          • Managing Daily Life
          • Paid Careworkers In The Home
          • Respite
          • Social Support
          • Tips for Carers About Visitors
          • Who is a Carer?
        • Practical Caring Resources
          • Getting Practical Help
          • Managing Medicines
            • Costs of Medicines
            • Medicines Explained
            • Practical Ways to Manage Medicines
            • Tips for Managing Medicines
          • Practical Information and Resources
          • Transport
        • Supporting Carers
          • Coming Home When Someone is Ill
          • Coping with Long Distance Caring
          • Family Carer Coordinating Role
          • Practical Assistance
          • Responding to Their Feelings
          • Saying Goodbye
          • Tips For Visitors
          • What to Say
        • Young People Provide Care Too
        • Carer Needs Tool
          • Carer Resources (CareSearch)
      • Living with Illness
        • Changes Over Time
          • Course Of Illness
          • Quality Of Life
        • Complementary Therapies
          • Some of the More Common Therapies
        • Continuing To Work
        • Emotional Challenges
          • Anxiety and Depression
          • Making Decisions
          • The Hard Thing About Being Cared For
          • When Someone You Care About is Seriously Ill
          • When You Are Seriously Ill
          • Would it Help to Talk to Someone?
        • Financial Matters
          • Costs of Care
          • Financial Help and Advice
          • Financial Resources
          • Superannuation and Insurances
        • Planning for the Future
          • Advance Care Planning
          • Funerals
          • Wills
        • Spirituality
        • Support Groups
        • Symptoms
          • Pain
        • Why is Communication Important?
          • Communicating With Health Professionals
          • Difficult Conversations
          • Family Communication
          • Talking With Children
      • Specific Groups
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
        • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex
        • Homelessness
        • Intellectual Disability
        • Living Alone
        • Mental Illness
        • Multicultural
          • Other Languages
        • Older People
        • Children and Adolescents
        • Prisoners and Their Families
        • Refugees and Asylum Seekers
        • Rural and Remote
        • Young Carers
      • Bereavement, Grief and Loss
        • Children and Grief and Loss
        • Grief and Sadness
        • Loss of a Child
        • Remembering
        • Grief and Loss Resources
      • At the End
        • Caring at the End
        • Changes at the Time of Death
        • Dying at Home
        • Family Issues at the End
        • Immediately After a Death
        • Place of Care, Place of Death
        • Preparing for the End
      • Using Online Information
        • How Research Contributes
        • Is it Trustworthy?
        • Sources of Information
        • Using Information
      • About Palliative Care
        • It's Not Just Cancer
        • Referring to Palliative Care
        • What is Palliative Care?
        • Who Provides Palliative Care
          • Coordinating Palliative Care
          • The Role of Health Professionals
          • The Role of Specialist Palliative Care
        • Why Information Matters
          • Patient's Need for Information
          • Family Carer's Need For Information
      • Finding Services
        • Palliative Care Services
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      • Print Resources
    • GPs
      • Patient Assessment
        • Identifying Palliative Care Needs
        • Assessing Prognosis
        • Assessing Symptoms
        • Assessing Distress
        • Assessing Family and Caregivers
      • Planning Care
        • Communication
          • Communication Starters
        • Sharing Care
        • Advance Care Planning
        • Planning for a Home Death
      • Symptoms
        • Appetite
        • Bowels
        • Breathing
        • Delirium
        • Fatigue
        • Nausea and Vomiting
        • Pain
        • Sleep
      • Clinical Decisions
        • Managing Opioids
        • Procedures and Investigations
        • The Deteriorating Patient
        • Emergencies
        • Syringe Drivers
        • Psychosocial Complexity
        • Refractory Problems
      • The Dying Patient
        • Assessing the Dying Patient
        • End of Life Symptoms
        • Supporting Families and Caregivers
      • Bereavement
        • Following up the Bereaved
      • Practice Management
        • Prescribing
        • Reimbursement
      • Professional Practice
        • Self-Care
        • Ongoing Education
      • Resources
        • GP Resources by Topic
        • Printable Patient Resources
        • Finding Literature and Evidence about GPs
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Care
      • Culturally Safe and Responsive Care
        • Developing Your Knowledge and Skills
      • The Care Journey
        • Why it's Important to Ask
        • Understanding the Care Context
        • Working Together
        • Palliative Care Approach
        • Person-Centred Care
        • Talking Together
        • Creating a Caring Environment
        • Changing Your Care Approach
        • Resources for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce
        • Caring for Yourself
        • Relevant Health Organisations
      • Patient, Family and Community Journeys
        • What’s Happening to me?
        • How do I Provide Care for my Family and Community?
        • Where Can I Find Help?
        • Online Information and Stories
      • Research, Evidence and Practice
        • National Responses
          • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Palliative Care Resource Kit
      • About the Section
      • Acknowledgement of Country
    • Allied Health
      • Allied Health and Palliative Care
        • Roles of Allied Health Professionals
          • Dietitians
          • Music Therapists
          • Occupational Therapists
          • Physiotherapists
          • Psychologists
          • Social Workers
          • Speech Pathologists
        • New to Palliative Care?
        • Practice Settings
        • About the Allied Health Section
      • Getting Started with CareSearch Resources
      • Interdisciplinary Teams
        • Communication
        • Competencies
        • Multidisciplinary Care
        • Working Boundaries
      • Working with Patients, Carers and Families
        • Adapting Goals
        • Discussing Palliative Care
        • Professional Boundaries
        • Responding to Strong Emotions
        • When a Patient Dies
        • Working with Families
        • Information for Patients, Carers and Families
        • Resources for Patients, Carers and Families
      • Clinical Considerations
        • Advance Care Planning
        • Care of the Spirit
        • Complementary Therapies
        • Helping to Maintain Hope
        • Managing Symptoms
        • Psycho-social Assessment
        • Self-care
      • Evidence, Quality, Standards and Affordability
        • Allied Health Evidence
        • Policy, Quality, Standards and Affordability
        • Research
      • Professional Development
        • Continuing Professional Development
        • Educating Others
        • Journal Club
        • Networking
        • Reflective Practice
      • Clinical and Education Resources
        • Allied Health Videos
        • Podcasts, Presentations, Posters and Abstracts
        • Stories
        • Disease Specific Information
          • Cancer Cachexia
          • Motor Neurone Disease
    • Nurses
      • Clinical
        • Advance Care Planning
        • After Death Care
          • After a Death at Home
          • Care of the Body
          • Religious and Cultural Considerations
          • Tissue Donation
        • Care of the Spirit
        • Communication
        • Complementary Therapies
        • End of Life Care
          • EOL Care Pathways
        • Ethical Issues
          • Assisted Suicide
          • Autonomy
          • Euthanasia
          • Nutrition and Hydration
          • Palliative Sedation
          • Research
          • Resuscitation
          • Truth Telling and Collusion
          • Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
        • Medication Management
          • Evidence for Medications
          • Palliative Medications
          • Prescribing Resources
          • The Role of the Carer
        • Multidisciplinary Team
        • Practical Caring Issues
          • Managing Fungating Wounds
          • Syringe Drivers
        • Self-Care
          • Burnout
          • Contributing Factors
          • Self-care Concepts
        • Symptom Management
          • Clinical Assessment
          • Clinical Decision Making
        • Working with Families
          • Family Meetings
          • Supporting Carers
          • Working With Families
      • Areas of Practice
        • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex
        • Homelessness
        • Intellectually Disabled
        • Living Alone
        • Mental Illness
        • Multicultural
        • Paediatrics (Specific Populations)
        • Prisoners
        • Refugees and Asylum Seekers
        • Rural and Remote (Specific Populations)
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
        • Aged Care and Dementia
        • HIV / AIDS
        • Hospital
        • Multicultural Areas of Practice
        • Non-malignant / End Stage Disease
        • Oncology
        • Paediatrics
          • Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA)
          • Neonates
        • Primary Care / Community
        • Rural and Remote
      • Research
        • Critical Analysis
        • EBP / QI / Research / Audit
        • Evidence
        • Evidence Based Practice
        • Research
      • Education
        • CPD and Portfolio Development
        • Critical Incident Analysis
        • Journal Club
        • Mentoring
        • Professional Development
        • Providing Education
        • Undergraduates
      • Policy, Quality, Standards
        • Policy and Planning
        • Public Health Palliative Care
        • Quality
        • Standards
        • Working Together Change Framework (Nurses HUB)
      • Nurses Providing Palliative Care
        • Competencies and Standards for Practice
        • Nurse Practitioners
        • Palliative Care Nursing
        • Special Interest Groups
        • Working in Specialist Palliative Care
      • Resources
      • Nurses Views
      • About the Nurses Section
        • What is the Nurses Section
        • Background to the Project
        • Clinical Disclaimer
    • Residential Aged Care
    • Researchers
      • Research Studies Register
        • Studies by Investigator
        • Studies by Topic
      • Getting Started in Palliative Care Research
        • The Research Context
        • Planning the Study
          • Involving Consumers in Research
          • Study Design
          • Protocol Development
          • Practical Considerations in Planning a Study
          • Obtaining Funding
          • Ethics Approval
          • Trial Registration
          • Finding Out More
        • Grants
        • Conducting the Study
          • The Research Team
          • Multi-site Research
          • Data Management
          • Governance
        • The Findings
          • Disseminating the Results
          • Authorship Arrangements
          • Publication
          • Knowledge Translation
      • Research Data Management System
        • About the Research Data Management System
  • What is Palliative Care
    • Death and Dying in Australia
    • Providing Palliative Care in Australia
    • Preferred Place of Death
    • Caring in the Community
    • Australia's Diverse Population
    • Role of Research
    • Volunteers
    • Major Projects
      • Advance Care Planning Australia
      • Advance Project
      • Australian Carer Toolkit
        • What is the Australian Family Carer Toolkit Project
      • CareSearch
      • Caring Safely at Home Project - Queensland
      • Closing the Gap
      • End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC)
      • End-of-Life Essentials
      • Enhancing Legal Knowledge of Medical Practitioners
      • NBN Telehealth
      • PaCCSC Project
        • PaCCSC Home
      • PaCSA
      • palliAGED
      • Palliative Care Community Pharmacy Updates
      • Palliative Care Education & Training Collaborative
      • Palliative Care Online Training
      • Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration
      • Quality of Care Collaborative in Paediatric PC
      • Talking End of Life...with people with intellectual disability (TEL)
      • Other Projects
        • Life, Hope & Reality
          • Introduction
            • How to use Life, Hope and Reality
            • About cancer
          • Physical Needs
            • Always Tired?
              • What may help
            • Can't Sleep?
              • What may help
            • Worried about pain?
              • Know your doses
            • Trouble breathing?
              • What may help
            • Experiencing Bowel Problems?
              • What may help
              • Changes in diet
              • Exercise
            • Feeling sick?
              • What may help
              • Meals
            • Lost your appetite?
              • What may help
            • Trouble getting around?
              • What may help
              • What may help cont.
            • Considering further treatment?
              • What may help
            • Looking for other treatment?
              • What may help
              • Do your homework
            • Sick of hospitals?
              • What may help
          • Emotional Needs
            • Feeling anxious?
              • What may help
            • Feeling depressed?
              • What may help
            • Lost hope?
              • What may help
            • What about intimacy and sex?
              • What may help
            • What about dignity?
              • What may help
            • Not thinking clearly?
              • What may help
          • Social Needs
            • Social support
              • What may help
            • Relationships
              • What may help
            • Talking to family and friends
              • What may help
            • Talking to health professionals
              • What may help
            • Cultural differences
              • What may help
            • Language barriers
              • What may help
            • Spirituality
              • What may help
          • Lifestyle
            • Diet
              • What may help
            • Exercise
              • What may help
            • Work and leisure
              • What may help
          • Finances
            • Costs and expenses
              • What may help
            • Paying the bills
              • What may help
            • Caregiver benefits
              • What may help
          • End of Life
            • Advanced care planning
              • What may help
            • Other decisions
              • What may help
            • Making the will
              • What may help
            • Organ donation
              • What may help
            • A desire to die
              • What may help
          • The People who Care
            • Physical health
              • What may help
            • Mental health
              • What may help
            • Social effects
              • What may help
            • Financial effects
              • What may help
            • Access to information
              • What may help
            • Effect on families
              • What may help
            • Practical matters
              • What may help
          • Palliative Care
            • What is it?
            • Where is it provided?
            • Who provides it?
              • Professional health workers
                • Specialist teams or services
            • When and why should I use it?
            • How much will it cost?
            • Is it right for me?
            • How do I get access to care?
              • What may help
          • Useful Self Assessment Tools
          • Glossary
            • Glossary C-G
            • Glossary H-L
            • Glossary M-O
            • Glossary P-R
            • Glossary S-Z
          • Print Options
          • Need Help Now?
        • Dementia Website
          • Dementia Home
            • Person-Centred Care
              • Understanding Each Person's Needs
            • Facilitated Case Conferencing
              • Why Use Facilitated Case Conferencing
              • Advance Care Planning
            • Triggers
              • New or Worsening Symptoms
                • Case Study - Fred Wisp
              • Functional or Clinical Status Decline
                • Case Study - John Alland
              • Return to RACF or home
                • Case Study - Lenore Anderson
              • Poor Appetite or Decreased Oral Intake
                • Case Study - Joan Prentice
              • Family Distress or Disagreement About Care
                • Case Study - Antony Paparo
            • Preparation for Facilitated Case Conferencing
              • Planning - Attendance
              • Preparation
              • Gather Relevant Information About the Person
            • Conducting a facilitated case conference
              • Role of the chair
            • Engaging GPs
              • Communication Strategies
            • Engaging Families / Carers
              • Managing Conflict
              • Communication - prognosis and end of life issues
            • Resources
              • Forms and Tools
              • Educational videos
              • Useful links
            • About us
              • Contact Us
    • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Clinical Evidence
    • Advance Care Planning
      • Communication Issues
      • Surrogate Decision-Makers
      • Health System Factors
      • Medico-Legal Aspects
    • Patient Management
      • Appetite Problems
        • Cachexia Anorexia Syndrome
        • Appetite Stimulants
        • Nutritional Support
      • Anxiety
      • Bereavement and Grief
        • Abnormal Grief
        • Bereavement PubMed Searches
        • Create Your Own Bereavement PubMed Search
      • Respiratory Symptoms
        • Cough
        • Dyspnoea
        • Haemoptysis
        • Obstruction
        • Respiratory Secretions
      • Complementary Therapies
      • Constipation
        • Pharmacological Management
      • Delirium
        • Pharmacological Management
        • Non-pharmacological Management
      • Dementia
        • Palliative Care Challenges
        • Caregivers and Care Settings
        • Prognosis and Advance Care Planning
        • Symptom Management
      • Depression
      • End of Life Care
        • Principles of Good End-of-Life Care
        • Patients' and Families' Experience
        • Symptom Management at the End of Life
        • Evaluation and Quality Assessment
        • End-of-Life Care in Different Settings
      • Fatigue
      • Heart Failure
        • Prognostic Issues
        • Symptoms and Patients' Experiences
        • Management Issues
        • Carers and Families
        • Service Issues
      • Nausea
        • Antiemetics
        • Malignant Bowel Obstruction
      • Pain
        • Barriers to Pain Management
        • Pain Assessment
        • Pharmacological Management - Opioid Analgesics
        • Pharmacological Management – Non-opioid analgesics
        • Non Pharmacological Approaches
        • Radiation and Interventional Pain Management
      • Sleeping Problems
      • Social Support
      • Suffering
        • Existential Distress
        • Dignity Conserving Care
    • Carer Evidence
      • Carers
      • Perspectives on Family Carers
      • Supporting Carers
      • Resources For, and About, Carers
      • Young Carers
    • Service Delivery Evidence
      • Audit
      • Models of Service Delivery
      • Self-Care
        • Clinician Stress and Burnout
  • Finding Evidence
    • Why is Evidence Important?
      • What is Evidence?
        • Consumer Participation
      • Appraising Evidence
      • Applying Evidence
      • Knowledge Translation
        • Journal Club Basics
    • Searching for Evidence
      • Databases and Resources
      • Learning to Search
      • Using Search Filters
        • About the Palliative Care Search Filter
        • About the Heart Failure Search Filter
        • About the Dementia Search Filter
        • About the RAC Search Filter
      • Systematic Searching
      • Searching the Web
        • Selecting Search Engines
        • Using Search Engines
        • Evaluating Quality
      • Open Access
      • Specialist Palliative Care Journals
    • Using Evidence in Practice
      • Identifying the Need to Change
      • Implementing Change
      • Measuring Change
    • PubMed Searches
      • Create Your Own PubMed Search
      • Information About CareSearch PubMed Searches
      • Technical Notes
      • Palliative Care Filter Effectiveness Study
      • Lung Cancer Search Filters
        • Information About Lung Cancer PubMed Searches
        • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer PubMed Searches
        • Lung Cancer and Palliative Care PubMed Searches
        • Create Your Own Lung Cancer PubMed Search
      • Heart Failure PubMed Searches
      • Economic Searches
        • Costs of Bereavement Care Searching
          • Other Costs of Bereavement Care Searching Resources
        • Costs of Dementia Care Searching
          • Other Costs of Dementia Care Searching Resources
        • Costs of Lung Cancer Care Searching
          • Other Costs of Lung Cancer Care Searching Resources
        • Costs of Primary Health Care Searching
          • Other Costs of Primary Health Care Searching Resources
        • Other Economic Search Resources
    • Grey Literature
      • Grey Literature Database
        • Search Literature
        • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Quality Improvement
        • Australian Quality Improvement Support
        • Appraising QI Reports and Studies
      • Theses
    • Systematic Review Collection
      • Latest Reviews
      • Procedures
  • Education
    • Health Professional Options
      • Major Education Initiatives
      • Formal Qualifications
      • Conferences
      • Short Courses and Workshops
      • eLearning
      • Clinical Experiences
    • Educator and Manager Supports
      • Apply the Palliative Care Workforce Development Framework
      • Create and Design a Program or Activity
      • Develop Skills in Teaching and Learning in Palliative Care
      • Integrate Palliative Care into Learning
      • Build Palliative Care Capacity in an Organisation
      • Resources for Workforce Development
    • Careworkers, Carers and Volunteers
      • Careworker Learning
      • Carers Learning
      • Volunteer Learning
      • Community Education
    • A Whole of Workforce Framework
      • About the Project
      • Acknowledgements
  • About CareSearch
    • CareSearch Project
      • CareSearch Model
        • CareSearch and Evidence
        • Evaluation and Program Logic
        • Quality Processes and HONcode
      • CareSearch Products
        • CareSearch Publications
        • Dying2Learn
          • What is a MOOC?
          • About Dying2Learn
            • Learning Modules
            • Videos and Infographics
            • Published Articles, Presentations and Posters
          • Sharing Dying2Learn
            • Dying2Learn Resources 2018
            • Dying2Learn Resources 2017
            • Dying2Learn Resources 2016
        • Engagement Project
          • Engagement Project Feedback Form
        • My Information Kit
        • My Learning
        • RAC Hub Project
        • Videos
          • Videos (Multicultural)
      • Acknowledgements
      • Working in Partnership
      • Using CareSearch
    • Newsroom
      • Newsletters
      • In Focus
        • From Evidence to Better Pain Management
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        • CareSearch 2019
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      • What's New in the Community
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    • Patients, Carers and Families
      • Introduction for Patients
      • Introduction for Carers
      • Introduction for Families
      • How to Care
        • Looking After Someone
          • Family Carer Role
          • Family Conflict In Caring
          • If You Cannot Continue In The Caring Role
          • Looking After Yourself
          • Managing Daily Life
          • Paid Careworkers In The Home
          • Respite
          • Social Support
          • Tips for Carers About Visitors
          • Who is a Carer?
        • Practical Caring Resources
          • Getting Practical Help
          • Managing Medicines
            • Costs of Medicines
            • Medicines Explained
            • Practical Ways to Manage Medicines
            • Tips for Managing Medicines
          • Practical Information and Resources
          • Transport
        • Supporting Carers
          • Coming Home When Someone is Ill
          • Coping with Long Distance Caring
          • Family Carer Coordinating Role
          • Practical Assistance
          • Responding to Their Feelings
          • Saying Goodbye
          • Tips For Visitors
          • What to Say
        • Young People Provide Care Too
        • Carer Needs Tool
          • Carer Resources (CareSearch)
      • Living with Illness
        • Changes Over Time
          • Course Of Illness
          • Quality Of Life
        • Complementary Therapies
          • Some of the More Common Therapies
        • Continuing To Work
        • Emotional Challenges
          • Anxiety and Depression
          • Making Decisions
          • The Hard Thing About Being Cared For
          • When Someone You Care About is Seriously Ill
          • When You Are Seriously Ill
          • Would it Help to Talk to Someone?
        • Financial Matters
          • Costs of Care
          • Financial Help and Advice
          • Financial Resources
          • Superannuation and Insurances
        • Planning for the Future
          • Advance Care Planning
          • Funerals
          • Wills
        • Spirituality
        • Support Groups
        • Symptoms
          • Pain
        • Why is Communication Important?
          • Communicating With Health Professionals
          • Difficult Conversations
          • Family Communication
          • Talking With Children
      • Specific Groups
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
        • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex
        • Homelessness
        • Intellectual Disability
        • Living Alone
        • Mental Illness
        • Multicultural
          • Other Languages
        • Older People
        • Children and Adolescents
        • Prisoners and Their Families
        • Refugees and Asylum Seekers
        • Rural and Remote
        • Young Carers
      • Bereavement, Grief and Loss
        • Children and Grief and Loss
        • Grief and Sadness
        • Loss of a Child
        • Remembering
        • Grief and Loss Resources
      • At the End
        • Caring at the End
        • Changes at the Time of Death
        • Dying at Home
        • Family Issues at the End
        • Immediately After a Death
        • Place of Care, Place of Death
        • Preparing for the End
      • Using Online Information
        • How Research Contributes
        • Is it Trustworthy?
        • Sources of Information
        • Using Information
      • About Palliative Care
        • It's Not Just Cancer
        • Referring to Palliative Care
        • What is Palliative Care?
        • Who Provides Palliative Care
          • Coordinating Palliative Care
          • The Role of Health Professionals
          • The Role of Specialist Palliative Care
        • Why Information Matters
          • Patient's Need for Information
          • Family Carer's Need For Information
      • Finding Services
        • Palliative Care Services
        • National Resources
        • Disease-Specific Resources
        • State Resources
          • Australian Capital Territory
          • New South Wales
          • Northern Territory
          • Queensland
          • South Australia
          • Tasmania
          • Victoria
          • Western Australia
      • Print Resources
    • GPs
      • Patient Assessment
        • Identifying Palliative Care Needs
        • Assessing Prognosis
        • Assessing Symptoms
        • Assessing Distress
        • Assessing Family and Caregivers
      • Planning Care
        • Communication
          • Communication Starters
        • Sharing Care
        • Advance Care Planning
        • Planning for a Home Death
      • Symptoms
        • Appetite
        • Bowels
        • Breathing
        • Delirium
        • Fatigue
        • Nausea and Vomiting
        • Pain
        • Sleep
      • Clinical Decisions
        • Managing Opioids
        • Procedures and Investigations
        • The Deteriorating Patient
        • Emergencies
        • Syringe Drivers
        • Psychosocial Complexity
        • Refractory Problems
      • The Dying Patient
        • Assessing the Dying Patient
        • End of Life Symptoms
        • Supporting Families and Caregivers
      • Bereavement
        • Following up the Bereaved
      • Practice Management
        • Prescribing
        • Reimbursement
      • Professional Practice
        • Self-Care
        • Ongoing Education
      • Resources
        • GP Resources by Topic
        • Printable Patient Resources
        • Finding Literature and Evidence about GPs
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Care
      • Culturally Safe and Responsive Care
        • Developing Your Knowledge and Skills
      • The Care Journey
        • Why it's Important to Ask
        • Understanding the Care Context
        • Working Together
        • Palliative Care Approach
        • Person-Centred Care
        • Talking Together
        • Creating a Caring Environment
        • Changing Your Care Approach
        • Resources for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce
        • Caring for Yourself
        • Relevant Health Organisations
      • Patient, Family and Community Journeys
        • What’s Happening to me?
        • How do I Provide Care for my Family and Community?
        • Where Can I Find Help?
        • Online Information and Stories
      • Research, Evidence and Practice
        • National Responses
          • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Palliative Care Resource Kit
      • About the Section
      • Acknowledgement of Country
    • Allied Health
      • Allied Health and Palliative Care
        • Roles of Allied Health Professionals
          • Dietitians
          • Music Therapists
          • Occupational Therapists
          • Physiotherapists
          • Psychologists
          • Social Workers
          • Speech Pathologists
        • New to Palliative Care?
        • Practice Settings
        • About the Allied Health Section
      • Getting Started with CareSearch Resources
      • Interdisciplinary Teams
        • Communication
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