Palliative Care

Follow the links below to find information on palliative care, which is the care of patients with serious illness to relieve pain.

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

Updated December 2011

86 Resources Found

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Title:	End of Life
Publisher:	HealthInsite Life Events Page
Description:	Links to information on issues related to death and dying, terminal care (care of patients in the terminal stages of their illness), euthanasia, 'dying with dignity' and hospice care.
Date:	Dec 2011

Title:	Self care
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Many areas of nursing can be stressful, none more so than Oncology and Palliative Care. The emotive nature of working closely with patients and families at one of the most difficult times of their lives can be challenging. While rewarding and satisfying for much of the time, it can be overwhelming and difficult to face at other times.
Date:	Oct 2011

Title:	Self care
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Health care providers are committed to caring for their patients, and patients expect to be cared for skillfully. Both patients and clinicians often have high expectations of the clinical encounter. Expectations and loss can seem overwhelming to clinicians.
Date:	Oct 2011

Title:	Advance Care Planning
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Advance Care Planning is often something that nurses become involved with. This could be with their patients and families or for themselves and their own family. Advance care planning has been described as a process of discussion about goals of care and recording of preferences for care of people who may lose capacity or communication ability in the future.
Date:	Sep 2011

Title:	GP Home
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	GPs care for many patients with life-limiting illnesses such as advanced heart or respiratory disease, end-stage renal failure or liver disease, progressive dementia, cancer, or degenerative neurological conditions. These pages have been developed to support GPs when caring for patients in their practice for whom a cure is no longer possible. They look at the clinical and practical issues associated with providing palliative care as a GP in the community.
Date:	Aug 2011

Title:	Allied Health
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Australia has more than 90,000 allied health professionals, who work alongside doctors and nurses to provide optimum health care for all Australians. They are an important part of the multidisciplinary team providing palliative care.
Date:	May 2011

Title:	Multicultural and Other Languages
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	This page helps you find multicultural palliative care information and palliative care information in other languages.
Date:	May 2011

Title:	Researchers
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Research is playing an increasingly important role in improving care outcomes for palliative care patients and their families. There are many different sections within the CareSearch website that will help established or beginning researchers.
Date:	May 2011

Title:	Prognostic issues
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Recognising the significance and irreversibility of multi-organ failure occurring in the terminal phase of heart failure is important because inappropriate investigation and management of this problem can contribute significantly to patients' and families' distress around the time of death. Predictors of survival of six months or less include increased dependency in activities of daily living, number and severity of comorbidities, worse nutritional status and weight loss and abnormal vital signs
Date:	May 2011

Title:	Mental illness
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	It is important that people who have a mental illness and who find that they have a life limiting illness are able to access the help they need. There are many services that can help if someone has had a mental illness history, or if they are caring for someone with a mental illness. Mental Health and Palliative Care Services can work together to best meet the needs of people requiring palliative care and their families
Date:	Feb 2011

Title:	Mental illness
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	One in two Australians have experienced an episode of mental illness and one in five currently have symptoms. Depression, trauma and anxiety are the most common. Other conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar are less common. All conditions can lead to complexities in the treatment regime for all health professionals.
Date:	Feb 2011

Title:	Nausea
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Nausea and vomiting cause distress to many palliative care patients. Nausea can either be acute, or persistent and chronic, and is not always associated with vomiting. In many cases it is possible to identify a cause, although in the palliative care population nausea is frequently multifactorial. These pages provide information and evidence regarding nausea for health professionals.
Date:	Feb 2011

Title:	Non-malignant / chronic disease
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	There are many illness that may benefit from specialist palliative input. These include neuromuscular disorders (MS, MND, Parkinsons disease), COPD, heart failure, dementia and other chronic life-limiting illnesses.
Date:	Jan 2011

Title:	Throat cancer
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Throat cancer can originate in the oesophagus (gullet), larynx (voice box), thyroid gland or cells lining the throat (pharynx). Risk factors for throat cancer include smoking and heavy alcohol consumption. Smokers who drink heavily are at even greater risk.
Date:	Nov 2010

Title:	Mouth cancer
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Mouth cancer usually starts in the cells lining the mouth. The most common sites are the lips, tongue and/or floor of the mouth. Smoking and drinking alcohol are known risk factors. Mouth cancer is easily cured if treated in its earlier stages.
Date:	Nov 2010

Title:	Management issues
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	As a patient with stable heart failure decompensates symptoms may escalate dramatically.
Date:	Oct 2010

Title:	Symptoms and patients' experiences
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Patients with advanced heart failure experience severe physical and psychosocial symptoms. Psychosocial issues include the experience of social isolation, fear, loss of control, life disruption, uncertainty about prognosis, and difficulty in accessing and dealing with information about their condition and in navigating the health system.
Date:	Oct 2010

Title:	Heart failure
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Heart failure is an eventually fatal condition which is becoming more prevalent, and is associated with severe symptom distress and high rates of mortality. Patients with advanced heart failure benefit from receiving, in parallel, active disease management and a personalised palliative approach to their care.
Date:	Oct 2010

Title:	Models of service delivery
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	Palliative care is provided, where possible, in the patient's preferred place of choice. It enables coordinated medical, nursing, allied health and volunteer services including both generalist and specialist providers where needed to meet the care needs of individual patients.
Date:	Sep 2010

Title:	Indigenous
Publisher:	CareSearch
Description:	When nursing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people recognition of their culture and the context in which they live is important.
Date:	Aug 2010

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