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    • Researchers
      • Getting Started in Palliative Care Research
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  • What is Palliative Care
    • Death and Dying in Australia
    • Providing Palliative Care in Australia
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    • Caring in the Community
    • Australia's Diverse Population
    • Role of Research
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    • Major Projects
      • The Advance Project
      • CareSearch
      • Closing the Gap
      • Decision Assist
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      • Life, Hope and Reality
      • Listen, Acknowledge, Respond
      • National Standards Assessment Program
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      • Palliative Care Education & Training Collaborative
        • Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
        • Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U)
      • Palliative Care Online Training
      • Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration
      • Quality of Care Collaborative in Paediatric PC
      • Respecting Patient Choices
      • Caring Safely at Home Project - Queensland
      • The PCACE Project
  • Clinical Evidence
    • Advance Care Planning
      • Communication Issues
      • Surrogate Decision-Makers
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        • Abnormal Grief
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        • Create Your Own Bereavement PubMed Search
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        • Specific Complementary Therapies
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        • Laxatives
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        • 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
        • Bowel Obstruction
      • Pain
        • Health Service Issues
        • Assessment Tools
        • Opioid Analgesics
        • Radiotherapy and Adjuvants
        • Non Pharmacological Approaches
        • Interventional Pain Management
      • Sleeping Problems
        • Insomnia
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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
    • Search Grey Literature
      • Search Literature
      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Non-Indexed Journals
        • Non-Indexed Journals - Grief Matters
        • Non-Indexed Journals - Social Networks
        • Non-Indexed Journals - EoL
    • Systematic Review Collection
      • Procedures
  • Education
    • Health Workforce Options
      • Major Education Initiatives
      • Formal Qualifications
      • Conferences
      • Short Courses and Workshops
      • Web Based Learning
      • 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
    • Volunteer and Carer Learning
      • Community Education
      • eLearning for Carers
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    • A Whole of Workforce Framework
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      • About the Project
      • Acknowledgements
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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
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        • Why is Communication Important
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        • What is Palliative Care?
        • Who Provides Palliative Care
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    • GPs
      • Patient Assessment
        • Identifying Palliative Care Needs
        • Assessing Prognosis
        • Assessing Symptoms
        • Assessing Distress
        • Assessing Family and Caregivers
      • Planning Care
        • Communication
        • 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 Hub
      • Acknowledgement of Country
    • Allied Health
      • Clinical Considerations
        • Advance Care Planning
        • Care of the Spirit
        • Complementary Therapies
        • Helping to Maintain Hope
        • Managing Symptoms
        • Psycho-social Assessment
        • Self-care
      • Interdisciplinary Teams
        • Communication
        • Competencies
        • Multidisciplinary Care
        • Working Boundaries
      • Professional Considerations
        • Continuing Professional Development
        • Educating Others
        • Journal Club
        • Networking
        • Reflective Practice
      • Evidence, Quality, Research
        • Allied Health Evidence
        • Policy, Quality, Standards
        • Research
        • Allied Health Professionals Research Projects
      • 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 and Education Resources
        • ALLIEDhealth[HUB] news
        • Allied Health Views
        • Power Point Presentations
        • Podcasts and Videos
        • Stories
        • Disease Specific
          • Cancer Cachexia
          • Motor Neurone Disease
      • Allied Health and Palliative Care
        • About the Allied Health Hub
        • New to Palliative Care?
        • Practice Settings
        • Roles of Allied Health Professionals
          • Dietitians
          • Music Therapists
          • Occupational Therapists
          • Physiotherapists
          • Psychologists
          • Social Workers
          • Speech Pathologists
    • 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
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Disease Specific

The following resources highlight the role of Allied health Professionals in different diseases or symptoms.
  • Cancer Cachexia
  • Motor Neurone Disease


Last updated 23 January 2017
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