GPs and home-based palliative care Professor Elizabeth Reymond discusses the pivotal role that general practitioners have in helping patients experience a ‘good home death’ and recommends tools to... Read more... 18/03/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | GPs Tags: Home care | Advance care planning | Palliative Care | Community | General practitioner | GP Views: 1893
Looking back and looking forward: Using life story work to facilitate advance care... In recognition of Advance Care Planning week (18-24 March), our team asked Craig Sinclair and Rebecca Walton, researchers currently looking at the effectiveness of advance... Read more... 6/03/2024 | Blog | Older Australia | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Advance care planning | advance care planning week Views: 1235
Helping people share what matters most: Planning for future health care Advance care planning ensures the preferences of aged care recipients for future care are known and respected by those providing this care. In this blog, Dr Catherine Joyce and... Read more... 1/03/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care Tags: Advance care planning | advance care planning week Views: 1815
End-of-life care for people living with dementia in residential aged care: Strategies... A recent Australian study explored the experiences of 56 residential aged care staff in providing end-of-life care to people with advanced dementia. Madeleine Juhrmann,... Read more... 26/02/2024 | Blog | Patients and Carers | Health Professionals | Residential Aged Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Dementia | Palliative Care | carers | Needs Assessment Views: 1367