Helping maintain quality of life for people during their final years.
Palliative Care WA - the peak body for palliative care in Western Australia.
What is palliative care?
Palliative care helps people with any life-limiting or terminal condition to live their life as fully and as comfortably as possible. It is not just for people with cancer.
Palliative care identifies and treats symptoms which may be physical, emotional, spiritual or social. It also provides practical and emotional support to family and carers.
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Palliative Care WA has delivered hundreds of free, informative and interactive community workshops on advance care planning and palliative care in Perth and regional WA over many years.
The theme of our 2024 Palliative Care Summit is Navigating the crossroads: Building the intersection between palliative care and neurodegenerative disease
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Supporting health professionals in WA
As a peak body, one of our key aims is to strengthen the sector as a whole by keeping people informed, providing opportunities to collaborate, encouraging celebration of innovation and excellence, and empowering the development of those working within the sector.
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As a peak body, one of our key aims is to strengthen the sector as a whole by keeping people informed, providing opportunities to collaborate, encouraging celebration of innovation and excellence, and empowering the development of those working within the sector.
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View all2024 Palliative Care Summit – Thank you to all who were part of the day!
Our enormous thanks go to all the speakers, sponsors, supporters and participants for making the 2024 Palliative Care Summit such a rich and illuminating event. Presenters Professor Hsien Seow, Professor…
Annual General Meeting 2024 – voting form and candidate profiles
Members of Palliative Care WA are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 10 December 2024. 4.30pm at the Boulevard Centre, 99 The Boulevard, Floreat. Refreshments will follow…
Thank you for making the 2024 Palliative Care Summit a very special event
On behalf of PCWA CEO Lenka Psar McCabe, Board President Dr Elissa Campbell, and the extraordinarily hard-working PCWA team that brought you the 2024 Palliative Care Summit, our enormous thanks…
Professor Hsien Seow talks to Nadia Mitsopoulos on ABC Radio Perth
In the lead up to the 2024 Palliative Care Summit tomorrow, Keynote speaker Professor Hsien Seow spoke to Nadia Mitsopoulos, ABC Perth Morning Program Presenter about his work, his visit to Perth…
2024 Annual General Meeting inclusive of a Special Resolution for Change of Rules of Association and Board Elections
Invitation to Members – NOTICE This is a reminder that the members of Palliative Care WA are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 10 December 2024. The…
Medical Forum column – Challenges in palliative care
Thank you to Medical Forum for publishing a column in the November edition about the challenges and intersection of palliative care and neurodegenerative disease that prompted us to highlight this…
Evaluation shows ACP workshops give families confidence to enact loved one’s wishes
A recent evaluation of our Advance Care Planning workshops, Advance Care Planning Workshops Evaluation Report 2024, showed that they were instrumental in enabling individuals to complete the Advance Health Directives…
Helpline comes to an end
The Palliative Care Helpline, a free service that provided the WA community with information and support on end-of-life planning, palliative care, and grief and loss, ceased operation on 31 October…
Nominate for election to the Palliative Care WA Board
Board member nominations now closed! Nominations are now open for election to the Palliative Care WA Board for 2025. As the peak body for the palliative care sector across the…
State Government Election 2025 – Sustainable palliative care for all Western Australians
As the peak body for palliative care in Western Australia, Palliative Care WA has consulted with our organisational members and other key palliative care sector organisations regarding vital palliative care…
Grief Cafe – new monthly discussion group on Fridays
Thanatologist Dr Margaret Sealey will be holding a monthly Grief Café on the first Friday of each month at Bodhi Tree Bookshop Cafe on the corner of Oxford Street and…
Registrations now open for the 2024 Palliative Care Summit
We are delighted to announce that registrations are NOW OPEN for the 2024 Palliative Care Summit – Navigating the crossroads: Building the intersection between palliative care and neurodegenerative disease on…