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Choosing home as a place of care, however, needs careful consideration to support not only the person at the end of life, but also family carers.
CarerHelp has practical resources to assist family carers in preparing to care for a person at the end of life at home.
The tool Is Caring at Home an Option can help identify what a carer needs to consider if they are finding it hard to decide whether they can provide care at home. Answers from the tool can be used for discussion with health professionals, care team, the person with life-limiting illness, and family members or friends.
A set of factsheets and links to other organisations provide home care tips. These include:
In addition, CarerHelp’s Pathway 2: Caring when death is a possibility offers modules and other information that can help understand what to expect when caring for a person with a terminal condition.
For more information, visit www.carerhelp.com.au
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Gold Coast Health (GCH) has developed a suite of Advance Care Planning (ACP) videos. This is one of a suite of videos GCH have developed discussing the importance of ACP. In this video, Kevin Heisner (Advance Care Planning Clinical Nurse Consultant from Gold Coast Health) and local GP Dr Andrew Weis...
The Gold Coast Health (GCH) COVID Virtual Ward has closed. Patients should be managed in general practice where possible. Acutely unwell patients should be referred to the Emergency Department. Refer stable patients who are eligible for injectable COVID therapies to GCH using the template here. We w...
Update from Dr Roger Halliwell – Chair of Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) Board I attended the GP Crisis Summit in Canberra on 5 October, hosted by RACGP, with participation from many organisations involved in the primary care sector. With only 13.8% of medical graduates considering ...
CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre is working with Healthdirect Australia and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, to conduct an independent evaluation of the Living with COVID Program. They would like to hear about the experiences of General Practitioners (GPs) providing...
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