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 people they care for could... Read more... 6/03/2019 | Health Professionals | HP Education Tags: Education and training | palliAGED Views: 1330
Symptom Management in the Terminal Phase: Turning Challenges into Opportunities Susan Gravier and Paul Tait from CareSearch and Southern Adelaide Palliative Services discuss the newly revised Symptoms and Medicines pages in the palliAGED Practice Centre... Read more... 26/02/2019 | Health Professionals | Allied Health | InFocus | Pain Management Tags: palliAGED | Medications and pharmacy Views: 1836
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, particularly when a person is... Read more... 8/02/2019 | Health Professionals | Primary health care Tags: ELDAC | End-of-life law Views: 1267
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 play a large role in providing... Read more... 31/01/2019 | Community | Patients and Carers | InFocus | Supporting Carers Tags: End-of-life conversations Views: 2087