Palliative pathways: Navigating syringe drivers and opioid prescribing across country SA Debbie Timpano, Palliative Care Project Officer, outlines key challenges of healthcare practitioners in using syringe drivers and prescribing opioids and introduces new... Read more... 18/06/2024 | Blog | Health Professionals | Primary health care | Residential Aged Care | Aged Care in home Tags: End-of-Life Care | Palliative Care | Palliative medicine | Palliative Care medication | Palliative care training Views: 643
The Nightingale Program: Providing dementia-specific palliative care support The Nightingale Program, a palliative care initiative by Dementia Australia, provides free support through specialised nurses and occupational therapists to individuals with... Read more... 5/12/2023 | Blog | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care | Nurses | Aged Care in home Tags: Residential aged care | Aged care | aged care workers | dementia care resources Views: 1306
My life choices: A study of Chinese-speaking older Australians and their attitudes and... Many individuals in the Chinese-speaking community come from countries or regions where death is considered a taboo topic, making it challenging to initiate discussions about... Read more... 27/09/2023 | Blog | Community | Older Australia | Diverse Communities | Patients and Carers | Aged Care in home Tags: Advance care planning | End of life conversations | Chinese-speaking | Older Australians Views: 1509
Empowering excellence in end-of-life care for older Australians: Charting a vision for... Aged care faces a period of great and opportunistic change in Australia. Dr Raechel Damarell, incoming palliAGED Senior Research Fellow, shares her vision on how palliAGED will... Read more... 7/09/2023 | Blog | Community | Older Australia | Residential Aged Care | Aged Care in home Tags: End-of-Life Care | palliAGED Views: 740