Authors
- Peter Hudson1,
- Rosalie Hudson1
- Centre for Palliative Care1
2012
Excerpt
This guidebook provides information that will help you assist a relative or
friend who needs palliative care. There are some tips to help you in your
caring role and suggestions to assist you to look after yourself.
The guidebook contains eight chapters:
1. Being a family carer: what’s it all about?
2. Caring for yourself and your relationships
3. Caring for your relative at home
4. Practical care
5. Caring for your relative in hospital, hospice or aged care home
6. Advance care planning, legal issues and funerals
7. Care as death approaches and bereavement
8. What resources are available?
You do not need to read the guidebook from beginning to end. There are a
number of topics within each of the main chapters, so you can choose those
areas that are of particular interest to you. The table of contents at the front
will help you choose. You may need to read some parts more than once.
You don’t need to have the entire book ‘under your belt’ before you can care
properly. At the end of each chapter, there is also a section that highlights the
main tips.
You can share this guidebook with the person you are caring for, or with other
relatives or friends.
If there is something you do not understand, or would like more information
about, please contact your local palliative care service, the nursing home
manager or your doctor.
Please note that this guidebook reflects the current situation regarding the
provision of palliative care services in Victoria. This situation may change and
may be different in other States and Territories.
9278 Supporting a person who needs palliative care
This 2012 edition replaces and updates the 2004 edition of the guidebook.
© Copyright Palliative Care Victoria
friend who needs palliative care. There are some tips to help you in your
caring role and suggestions to assist you to look after yourself.
The guidebook contains eight chapters:
1. Being a family carer: what’s it all about?
2. Caring for yourself and your relationships
3. Caring for your relative at home
4. Practical care
5. Caring for your relative in hospital, hospice or aged care home
6. Advance care planning, legal issues and funerals
7. Care as death approaches and bereavement
8. What resources are available?
You do not need to read the guidebook from beginning to end. There are a
number of topics within each of the main chapters, so you can choose those
areas that are of particular interest to you. The table of contents at the front
will help you choose. You may need to read some parts more than once.
You don’t need to have the entire book ‘under your belt’ before you can care
properly. At the end of each chapter, there is also a section that highlights the
main tips.
You can share this guidebook with the person you are caring for, or with other
relatives or friends.
If there is something you do not understand, or would like more information
about, please contact your local palliative care service, the nursing home
manager or your doctor.
Please note that this guidebook reflects the current situation regarding the
provision of palliative care services in Victoria. This situation may change and
may be different in other States and Territories.
9278 Supporting a person who needs palliative care
This 2012 edition replaces and updates the 2004 edition of the guidebook.
© Copyright Palliative Care Victoria