palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets: responding to need Across residential and home-based aged care at least 70% of direct care ('hands on' care) is provided by careworkers. Many of the... Read more... 6/03/2019 | Health Professionals | HP Education Tags: Education and training | palliAGED Views: 781
Symptom Management in the Terminal Phase:... Susan Gravier and Paul Tait from CareSearch and Southern Adelaide Palliative Services discuss the newly revised Symptoms and Medicines pages in... Read more... 26/02/2019 | Health Professionals | Allied Health | InFocus | Pain Management Tags: palliAGED | Medications and pharmacy Views: 1084
Providing palliative medication at the end of life Research suggests that health professionals may be afraid to provide palliative medicine because they are worried about whether it is lawful,... Read more... 8/02/2019 | Health Professionals | Primary health care Tags: ELDAC | End-of-life law Views: 747
Dealing with Dying – Some Comments for Carers Palliative care helps people live their life as fully and as comfortably as possible when living with a life-limiting or terminal illness. Carers... Read more... 31/01/2019 | Community | Patients and Carers | InFocus | Supporting Carers Tags: End-of-life conversations Views: 1297
Staying in the ring: Clinical speech pathology... Speech pathologists will often work with patients undergoing palliative care and treatment, despite the perception that it may not be their role.... Read more... 22/01/2019 | Health Professionals | Allied Health Tags: Speech pathology Views: 1059
Understanding palliative care and why it matters Palliative care is increasingly mentioned in mainstream and professional media releases and reports, particularly those related to aged care and... Read more... 16/01/2019 | CareSearch Project Tags: Evidence-based palliative care Views: 671