An aged care nurse has called for Australians to become more open in conversations about death and dying during National Palliative Care Week. Multi-award-winning palliative care nurse, Juliane Samara, highlighted the need for a cultural shift in society about mortality ...
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Hospital denies man was alive when put in body bag and taken to morgue
A 55-year-old palliative care patient may have been alive when he was put in a body bag and taken to a morgue, with the shocking case now referred to the state coroner and two other inquiries. A doctor at Rockingham ...
More »Palliative Care Needs Rounds assist residents facing the end of their life
Deaths in residential aged care settings occur frequently enough to be core business. It is sometimes difficult to assess when an individual might be dying, and sometimes an acute event means that they may be transferred to hospital and die ...
More »Telehealth not enough to replace in-person palliative care: Q&A
As the pandemic fostered the demand for telehealth, a team of researchers asked themselves whether it stood a chance in replacing real-life palliative care services. Following 130 palliative care patients, the two studies revealed that 91 per cent of patients ...
More »Project uses humour to shed light on palliative care for Indigenous peoples
A new animation starring Indigenous characters uses humour to destigmatise palliative care, grief and death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The 'Indigenous Program of Experience in Palliative Approach’ (IPEPA), created by the Queensland University of Technology, will be ...
More »‘I think we all need a creative outlet and I think nursing, especially now, it’s so demanding’: nurse wins national writing award
After hearing news he had won a national literary award Queensland palliative care nurse Adam Brannigan said he had no plans on becoming a best-selling author. “I think a writer is not made of that stuff. I just keep offering ...
More »‘A watershed moment’: sector reacts to royal commission report and four areas for immediate action
“Get cracking.” That’s the overwhelming call from advocacy groups in response to the release of the aged care royal commission’s final report. Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia said the report’s release places the onus on the Morrison Government to ...
More »Palliative care reimagined: the compassionate communities model
It has been suggested that the western world has lost its 'death literacy' as we increasingly look to outsource end of life care to businesses. A new public health approach to palliative care has been put forward as a compassionate alternative ...
More »A dying wish: Lobster for Josino
What would be your last meal? For Josino, all he wanted was lobster, but that wasn’t to be. “You know what really annoys me? If I was on death row, I could choose my last meal. Just because I’m sick, ...
More »Palliative care standards updated
Palliative Care Australia has launched the fifth edition of the National Palliative Care Standards and the Palliative Care Service Development Guidelines, in an effort to better shape how palliative care is planned, funded and delivered across Australia in the next ...
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