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        • Young People Provide Care Too
      • When Someone You Care About is Seriously Ill
      • Practical Caring Resources
        • Managing Medicines
          • Costs of Medicines
          • Medicines Explained
          • Practical Ways to Manage Medicines
          • Tips for Managing Medicines
        • Transport
        • Useful Resources
      • Supporting Carers
        • Coming Home When Someone is Ill
        • Coping with Long Distance Caring
        • How You Can Help
        • Tips For Visitors
        • What to Say
      • Carer Needs Tool
        • About the Needs Assessment Tools
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      • Changes Over Time
        • Course Of Illness
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      • Continuing To Work
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        • Making Decisions
        • The Hard Thing About Being Cared For
        • Would it Help to Talk to Someone?
      • Costs of Care
        • Financial Help and Advice
        • Financial Resources
        • Superannuation and Insurances
      • Planning for the Future
        • Advance Care Planning
        • Funerals
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    • About Palliative Care
      • What is Palliative Care?
      • It's Not Just Cancer
      • Person-centred Care
      • Who Provides Palliative Care
        • Coordinating Palliative Care
        • The Role of Health Professionals
        • The Role of Specialist Palliative Care
      • Referring to Palliative Care
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      • National Resources
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        • Australian Capital Territory
        • New South Wales
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    • Print Resources
    • A Palliative Care Booklet for Patients Carers and Families
    • COVID-19
      • For People With Palliative Care Needs
      • People at High Risk for Severe Infection
      • Finding Information
  • Health Professionals
    • 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
        • Residential Aged Care
      • 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
        • Allied Health Search
      • 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
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        • Aged Care and Dementia
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      • Research Data Management System
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  • Clinical Evidence
    • Advance Care Planning
    • Patient Care and Conditions
      • Advanced Dementia
      • Appetite Problems
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      • Care of the Dying Person
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      • Constipation
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      • Depression
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      • Nausea
        • Antiemetics
        • Malignant Bowel Obstruction
      • Pain
        • Barriers to Pain Management
        • Pain Assessment
        • Opioid Analgesics
        • Non-opioid analgesics
        • Non Pharmacological Approaches
        • Radiation and Interventional Pain Management
      • Recognising Last Year of Life
      • Respiratory Symptoms
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      • Sleeping Problems
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    • Carer Evidence
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    • Health System Issues
      • Audit
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  • Finding Evidence
    • Why is Evidence Important?
      • What is Evidence?
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        • Journal Club Basics
      • About Evidence
    • Searching for Evidence
      • Databases and Resources
      • Learning to Search
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        • About the Palliative Care Search Filter
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      • Open Access
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    • Using Evidence in Practice
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    • PubMed Searches
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        • Other Economic Search Resources
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  • About Palliative Care
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  • A Palliative Care Booklet for Patients Carers and Families
  • COVID-19
    • For People With Palliative Care Needs
    • People at High Risk for Severe Infection
    • Finding Information

Disease-Specific Resources

Cancer Cancer Council Australia
Lions Australian Prostate Cancer Website
Cancer Australia
Virtual Cancer Centre
Dementia Dementia Australia
Heart Conditions Heart Foundation
HIV / AIDS Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis Service
Lung Disease Lung Foundation Australia
Neurological Brain Foundation
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Australia
MNDCare
Multiple Sclerosis Australia
National Stroke Foundation
Parkinson's Australia
Renal Kidney Health Australia


Last updated 25 January 2019

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