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Patient-reported outcome measures in palliative care attempt to capture the patient experience to drive service improvements. However, as Dr Ollie Minton and Prof Aileen Collier ask in this blog, do these measures add value (or red tape), and are they capturing all the important aspects of palliative care?  

There are many different perspectives that shape how individuals and societies perceive death and dying. Jennifer Tieman reflects on the value and importance of the Dying2Learn MOOC program and discusses opportunities to improve the delivery of services and care at the end of life.  

This study provides novel insights into the perspectives of parents of children with life-limiting conditions that inform how clinicians may best approach serious illness communication. 

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 continue to support the sector through these changes over the coming years.

Conversations around prognosis and personal preferences for end-of-life management options can be difficult for both clinicians and their patients. Dr Magnolia Cardona describes CHAT, an easy to administer, user-friendly online conversation guide supporting clinicians to start an ‘honest discussion journey’ with older patients or aged care residents approaching the end of life.