CarerHelp – New Resource
CarerHelp, a new resource to support unpaid carers, will be launched at Parliament House today during National Carers Week 2019. Developed as part of the Australian Family Carer Toolkit Project, this new resource helps to prepare [...]
How to die a better death
A film that can be viewed at SBS on Demand asks how should we approach medical treatment when we're dying? It's a question we all have to face, but avoid talking about. Thanks to advances [...]
The future of the social organisation of end of life care
Urgent questions are raised by the major challenges of our “ageing” societies’ organisation of care: frailty, dementia, social isolation, families’ decreasing capacity to care, care migration, disappearance of social infrastructure in rural regions, digitalization, and [...]
Palliative Care Australia Updates Position Statement on Voluntary Assisted Dying and Palliative Care
Palliative Care Australia (PCA) Board Chair Dr Jane Fischer says the organisation has updated its position statement on Palliative Care and Voluntary Assisted Dying for the first time since 2016, in light of the legislative [...]
Is Dying at Home Overrated?
“If time were short, where would you want to be?” As a palliative care physician, I regularly ask my patients, or their family members, where they want to die. The specific language I use depends [...]
Sometimes Treating Pain Is As Important As Treating Disease
Amy Berman of New York City had been living with inflammatory breast cancer for about five years when, during a ride on the Q train one day in 2014, she noticed a pain in her [...]
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