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Dying to Know Day is on 8 August and is a timely reminder of the integral role General Practitioners play in promoting and facilitating advance care planning. GPs with their understanding of patients’ health and needs, are uniquely positioned to support individuals through the planning process, ad...
Advance Care Planning Australia have a free phone National Advance Care Planning Support Service for residents in aged care, which includes: Understanding advance care planning Thinking about values and preferences Having the conversation with loved ones Choosing or acting as a substitute decision-m...
Developed by the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), PaCE Aged Care is a web-based app directory of education resources specifically produced for aged care. The app helps you find learning and teaching resources that support the developm...
PalliAGED has developed a new set of palliative care resource packs to support those working in home care and residential aged care. These resources include a range of forms and checklists to help the aged care workforce deliver quality care at the end of life. The packs can also be used for trainin...
The newly launched CALDWays webinars by Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra (MCCI) have information on how aged care providers can improve their service delivery for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. As well as include topics on dementia care, caring fo...
The End-of-Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) Dementia Toolkit provides information, tools, and resources to support aged care staff in caring for people who have dementia. Share the ELDAC Dementia Toolkit Fact Sheet with your colleagues. Try the Your Learning Needs test to help you assess and i...
The new Advance Project Dementia provides practical, evidence-based training and resources that make it easier for aged and primary care professionals to initiate courageous end-of-life conversations and assess the palliative care needs of people living with dementia. Specifically designed for clini...
The Equip Aged Care Learning Packages, funded by the department and available through the University of Tasmania, cover 14 topics in aged care. The modules are designed for direct care workers, volunteers, caregivers, and anyone interested in improving care for older people. The first nine learning ...
National Advance Care Planning Week challenges everyone to discuss what living well means to them and to consider who they would want to speak for them if they could no longer communicate or make their own health care decisions. GCPHN has developed The Advance Care Planning QI Toolkit which is a pra...
Caring for those living with dementia can be challenging. Changes in behaviour are common with up to 95% of people living with dementia experiencing them. These may include episodes of significant agitation or aggression that may be very difficult to manage. The complexity and severity of these beha...
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