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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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Palliative Care Services Boosted in WA
10 October 2019
Palliative Care WA congratulates the McGowan Government for releasing another significant injection of funds into the improved delivery of palliative care in Western Australia. We recognise this is a significant…
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Congratulations Veronica!
19 September 2019
Each day across Australia, thousands of individuals and teams are working in palliative care to make a positive difference to the lives of people living with a life-limiting illness. Some…
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Describing a good death
19 September 2019
At our Dying Well community forum we asked everyone – attendees and panel members – to describe a good death in 3 words. Responses were written on post-it notes and…
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Community workshops proven highly effective
2 September 2019
An independent evaluation of Palliative Care WA’s Advance Care Planning workshops was undertaken by Associate Professor Moira O’Connor and her team at Curtin University during 2018/2019. Workshop participants were measured…
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You only die once campaign
21 August 2019
Palliative Care WA has launched You only die once, Australia’s first consumer awareness campaign on Advance Care Planning. Advance Care Planning is the process of discussing and documenting future health…
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The Last Word
1 August 2019
Palliative Care WA is supporting The Last Word – a volunteer program where writers hear and record people’s life stories. The Last Word will utilise the skills of volunteer writers…
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caring@home
11 July 2019
Palliative Care WA were pleased to welcome Professor Liz Reymond and Dr Karen Cooper from the caring@home project to our recent quarterly forum. A national palliative care project, caring@home has…