Support during Palliative Care

Follow the links below to find information on social support for patients and carers during palliative care.

Reviewed January 2012

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Title:   Homelessness
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   It is important that people who are homeless, and who are unwell, are able to access the help that they need.
Date:   May 2012
Title:   Multicultural
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   There are a range of issues to be considered when looking after patients from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Date:   May 2012
Title:   Social support
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   In palliative care, the quality of social support provided in all three domains - information, emotional support and physical assistance and care - are key aspects of what lead to a 'good death'. These pages provide information and evidence regarding social support for health professionals.
Date:   Mar 2012
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:   Nov 2011
Title:   Palliative care explained
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Palliative care helps people with a life-threatening illness maximise their quality of life. It also offers support to family and friends during the illness and with bereavement counselling. It is provided in the home, a specialist palliative care unit (referred to in the past as a hospice) or other health facility.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Managing daily life
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Providing physical and emotional care for a person when they are seriously ill is demanding. Remember that family members and friends, including neighbours, often want to help.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Support Agencies
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Many community and government organisations and agencies provide resources and supports for palliative care patients and their families. There are a number of parts of the CareSearch website that may be particularly useful to your organisation and your clients.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   The People who Care
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Caregivers come in all shapes and sizes and for people with advanced cancer they are often the secret to an optimum quality of life.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Carers and families
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Social support has a significant effect on the quality of life and prognosis of patients, and may reduce depression and anxiety. Lack of emotional support has been independently associated with a higher rate of fatal and non-fatal cardiac events. Caregivers of patients with heart failure often do not access formal social services but nonetheless they carry a significant burden of care.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Supporting carers
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   One important aspect of the nurses' role in palliative care is that of supporting carers. Carers are those who look after someone at home, and are usually considered informal or lay carers as they are not being paid for what they do.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Working with families
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Care centred on the patient and family as a unit is core to the philosophy of palliative care. The goals of supporting family have been described as: meeting their needs; minimising their distress; improving their well being and ultimate outcomes; and empowering them to provide care.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Multicultural
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   People from other cultures may have specific needs with regard to palliative care. There is information available in different languages.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Living alone
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   It is likely that in 2021 between 20% to 24% of people living alone will be older Australians (aged 75 years and over), and of these about three-quarters will be women. This needs to be considered in planning their palliative care needs.
Date:   Apr 2012
Title:   Living alone
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   When someone is dying they need increasing amounts of help. This is the same whether they live alone or not. With people generally living longer, many are outliving spouses, friends and other family members. Some older people will withdraw from social contacts through their own choice. Some will enjoy the solitude and independence of living alone but others won't. Some will be living with mental illness or with chronic diseases. Not all of those living alone will be managing financially.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Young carers
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   A young carer is a child or young person up to the age of 25 years whose life is affected by the need to provide care for a family or household member who has an illness or disability.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Palliative care
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   Palliative care is specialised care for people who have a disease that cannot be cured.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Continuing to work
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   A serious illness can mean a loss of control, independence and the sense of feeling normal. Work can represent a sense of identity and self-reliance. Many people, both patients and carers, may continue to work if they are able.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   How to care
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Many people have never looked after someone who is seriously ill. It can be a bit overwhelming. They describe needing information and resources to help in managing daily life.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   How to help families
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Caring for someone who is dying can be emotionally and physically demanding. Supporting and helping the families will help both them and the patient.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   If patients and families aren't coping
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   A terminal illness within a family is both distressing and stressful. Most families are resilient and are able to handle these challenges.Occasionally families cannot cope.
Date:   May 2009

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