When the small things become extraordinarily... When someone has an incurable disease like advanced cancer or motor neurone disease, they experience many changes, one of which is functional... Read more... 18/11/2016 | Health Professionals | Allied Health Tags: Occupational Therapy Views: 1029
Lifting weights and spirits! Move it or lose it, as the saying goes, is relevant to the field of palliative care. In fact, evidence suggests that up to 30% of muscle weakness... Read more... 11/11/2016 | Health Professionals | Allied Health Tags: Physiotherapy Views: 633
Learn more on end-of-life care – free and peer... Let’s be frank, end-of-life care can be tricky. Yes, dying is normal, but it hasn’t been a major focus in the acute hospital... Read more... 25/10/2016 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | End-of-Life Essentials Views: 670
Carers and Online Health Information National Carers Week provides us all with an opportunity to stop and think about the care that is needed by palliative care patients and that is... Read more... 21/10/2016 | Community | Patients and Carers Tags: Accessing services and support Views: 674
Caring doesn’t stop just because a person... I often hear people say that once a person enters a residential aged care facility that the caring role provided by the person’s family and... Read more... 20/10/2016 | Community | Older Australia Tags: Carers Week Views: 1336
Insight into being a carer In May 2011, my widowed mother, Donne, was unexpectedly diagnosed with late stage oesophageal cancer. Mum was the epicentre of my family’s... Read more... 17/10/2016 | Community | Patients and Carers | InFocus | Supporting Carers Tags: Home care Views: 820