Category Archives: News

Conference early bird registration closes 31 August!

8-10 November 2018 Palliative Care NSW Conference Riding the Waves of Change in Kiama. Early bird registration...

Parliamentary lunchbox serves insights into the need for reform to funding models

Demand for palliative care, models of funding, the need for reform and the data to...

How the internet is changing the way we grieve

People don’t die in the same way that they used to. In the past, a...

My Health Record for palliative care patients

My Health Record is an Australian Government initiative which aims to make it easy for...

‘We need to respond better to the impact of grief’: Joint policy released

Palliative Care Australia and the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement have launched a joint Policy...

Free Understanding Dementia online course

The University of Tasmania’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Understanding Dementia, is an easily accessible...

Art competition tells the story of life and death

As part of the Palliative Care NSW Conference being hosted in Kiama in November this...

Talking End of Life with people with intellectual disability

Conversations about death and dying can be difficult at the best of times. Having this...

Not a Palliative Medicine Specialist? The ACI Executive Committee needs you

The ACI Palliative Care Network Executive Committee is seeking a Medical Specialist from a specialty...

Suffering, connection & authenticity: Palliative Care seminar keeps it real in Warilla

About 60 people gathered in Warilla near Port Kembla) yesterday 19th June to attend our Being...

Study participants wanted: Older prisoners, dementia, better care practices

Wed 27 June 3-5 pm via web-meeting. USyd researchers Fiona White & Sanetta du Toit...

Limited places available: Seminar on ‘Palliative Care and people with intellectual disability’

26th June. Dr Michele Wiese from Western University Sydney, and Ms Bernadette Curryer from the University...