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Consumer awareness campaign proven effective
23 January 2020
Evaluation results have proved that You only die once, Australia’s first Advance Care Planning consumer awareness campaign was highly successful. The primary purpose of this campaign, which was delivered in…
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Compassionate Communities in Action
31 October 2019
Palliative Care WA team member Vicki Barry recently participated in the 6th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference Compassionate Communities in Action: Reclaiming Ageing, Dying and Grieving, which was held…
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Dementia Carers Unprepared and Distressed by End-of-Life Decisions
29 November 2018
New international research from Advance Care Planning Australia reveals that dementia carers need more support and guidance to navigate end-of-life care for their loved one. Recently published by internationally renowned…
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Research, Data and Articles
29 November 2018
Looking for some data on Palliative Care? The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration is a national palliative care project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health that collects data across…
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The ‘safe death’: An ethnographic study exploring the perspectives of rural palliative care patients and family caregivers
29 November 2018
Rainsford S, Phillips CB, Glasgow NJ, MacLeod RD, Wiles RB. Palliative Medicine Sept 2018; 1-9. Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1177/0269216318800613 journals.sagepub.com/home/pmj Achieving one’s preferred place of death is often…
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Providing palliative care at the end of life: should health professionals fear regulation?
29 November 2018
End of Life Law in Australia have recently published an article exploring the regulatory framework governing this area, the extent to which health professionals actions have been scrutinised, and the consequences.
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Research: General practice palliative care: patient and carer expectations, advance care plans and place of death – a systematic review
27 August 2018
This paper, the second in a series of five, explores patient and carer expectations of the role of GPs and GPNs at end of life, their contribution to advance care…