Information on palliative care

The CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge Network

Other useful links

• Carers Australia
• The Australian Pain Society
• Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
• Living Caring Working
• Palliative Care Nurses Australia
• Kids Helpline
• Alzheimer's Australia
• National Centre for Childhood Grief
• Motor Neurone Disease Australia
• Paediatric Palliative Care
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
• The National Association for Loss and Grief

General information for patients and carers

• Frequently asked questions
• Managing the health care system
• Pain and symptom management
• Planning
• Carers
• Dying and death
• Grief and loss

Health professionals

• Frequently asked questions
• Pain and symptom management
• Advance care planning 
• Supportive care
• Grief and loss
• Ethics
• Guidelines for reportable deaths (in Victoria)
• Palliative medicine handbook
• Palliative drugs website
• Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end-of-life issues

Legal

• The Office of the Public Advocate
• Refusal of treatment certificate
• Making a Will
• Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995 (SA)
• Appointing an enduring guardian
• Enduring power of attorney (Financial)
• Enduring power of attorney (Medical treatment)
• A guide to decision-making in health care

 Indigenous

• General information about Indigenous palliative care in South Australia
• Let's yarn about palliative care: going home to country (Koorie Services)
• Indigenous palliative care pamphlet

Grief and bereavement

• Grief and loss - information page

Training

• Palliative Care Australia teaching resources
• Introducing the guidelines for a palliative approach in residential aged care: Self directed learning package
• CareSearch

 Resources for sale

Multicultural palliative care guidelines

 Cultural issues around death and dying vary so greatly among peoples, it presents a great challenge to staff members who wish to speak and act in a culturally sensitive way.

 Contains practice guidelines and specific recommendations for the following language  groups: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

 

Price $10.00 ea

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A caregiver's guide
This resource for carers and clinicians and is based on the successful Candadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association edition.

The 2007 Australian edition has been edited by Dr Mary Brooksbank AM and Elizabeth Keam AM and contains practical information, clear and simple diagrams, up-to-date details on:-

• dealing with a diagnosis of terminal illness
• physical care
• possible problems and complications
• as life ends
• useful information, books and websites
• resources and support

Price $29.95 ea

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