Palliative Care

Follow the links below to find information on palliative or terminal care, euthanasia, 'dying with dignity' and hospice care.

CareSearch is an electronic resource for palliative care with options to search the literature on palliative care and support research and practice.

Updated June 2007

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Title:   Media release. $6.5m palliative care boost for rural areas
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government has today announced funding of more than $6.5 million - in the field of palliative care -- to provide more coordinated care for rural Australians with a life-limiting illness.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Making decisions for end of life
Publisher:   Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:   If we want control over how we die, we need advance directives and open communication with our family and health practitioners.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   CareSearch home
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   An electronic resource for palliative care researchers, educators and clinicians providing care for people with a life limiting illness. Provides literature databases, research data management system and evidence based palliative care resources.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Media release. New PBS listings for April 2008
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Cancer patients, children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, people suffering from schizophrenia, stroke patients and the Indigenous community will benefit from changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from 1 April 2008.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Palliative Care
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Palliative care - quality of life for people with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers.
Date:   Dec 2007

Title:   Aged care facilities
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Residential aged care facilities have particular needs and challenges in providing care for residents approaching the end of life. Specific resources, guidelines and tools may assist in the delivery of palliative care in residential aged care settings.
Date:   Oct 2007

Title:   The National Palliative Care Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page provides a background to the establishment of the National Palliative Care Program.
Date:   Sep 2007

Title:   Overview of National Palliative Care Program initiatives
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   An overview of the initiatives funded under the National Palliative Care Program for the period 2006-2010.
Date:   Sep 2007

Title:   The Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) Project
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The PCC4U project is an initiative of the Australian Department of Health and Ageing through the National Palliative Care Program that aims to promote inclusion of palliative care education as an integral part of all medical, nursing and allied health undergraduate training.
Date:   Sep 2007

Title:   Media release. $15.4 million for new palliative care initiatives
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government today announced more than $15 million in funding for two new palliative care initiatives.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Research and quality improvement in palliative care services
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   High-quality research underpins all aspects of health care. To provide the best possible care, it is essential to work out what health care works and what doesn't in what circumstances. The Australian Government has invested heavily in research into palliative care and quality improvement and has recently renewed this funding.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Media release. Multilingual brochures explain palliative care services
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   A new series of multilingual brochures will help Melbourne residents from different cultures understand how palliative care services can help people with a terminal illness.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Cancer pain
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   Many people with cancer find that understanding their illness can help them to better manage any pain.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Palliative care - help for the terminally ill
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Palliative care helps people who are terminally ill to achieve the best quality of life possible. It offers support and grief counselling to the family caring for the person with a terminal illness. Palliative care is provided in the patient's home, in hospital or in special units called hospices.
Date:   Jul 2007

Title:   Media release. $1.1 million for palliative care research in NSW
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Research into end of life and palliative care practices will be supported by six National Health and Medical Research Council grants announced on 27 July by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Brett Mason.
Date:   Jul 2007

Title:   Media release. $1.1 million for palliative care research in Victoria
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Seven National Health and Medical Research Council grants worth $1.1 million will support palliative care research in Victoria.
Date:   Jul 2007

Title:   Media release. $300,000 grant for James Cook University
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Research into improving health issues associated with end of life and palliative care practices is the aim of a National Health and Medical Research Council grant announced in Cairns on 13 July by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Brett Mason.
Date:   Jul 2007

Title:   Finding evidence
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Understanding how and where to search are important skills for clinicians and researchers. These pages can help them develop skills and confidence in searching in different bibliographic databases. There are also a series of topic searches that have been written for use within the PubMed environment. These searches enable clinicians to choose a topic and the type of evidence level and other features such as free full text.
Date:   Jul 2007

Title:   What is palliative care?
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   Palliative care is co-ordinated care and support so the seriously ill can live as comfortably and well as possible.
Date:   Jun 2007

Title:   Media release. National palliative care initiative launched
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   A new community education initiative on palliative care was launched in Canberra on 22 May by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Brett Mason.
Date:   May 2007
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