Across the world, the greatest number of COVID-19 deaths are in older people, with many residents in aged care facilities at risk of the disease. Complex health needs associated with multi-morbidity and frailty contribute to their risk. The hands-on provision ...

Norman wasn’t having a bar of it. Talk to a stranger about his life? No way. What did he want to tell someone all of his secrets for? “My life is very boring,” he told his wife of 25 years, ...

Each older Australian living in the community or in residential aged care has different needs towards the end of life. Older Australians reflect the diverse experience of all Australians. Many Australians are born in different countries, speak languages other than ...

The South Australian Government has announced a new grants program aimed at improving palliative care across the state. The Palliative Care 2020 Grants Program offers a limited number of grants of up to $150,000 each. SA Minister for Health and ...

When the time comes, will you be ready to leave? Will you be of sound enough mind to tell others how you’d like to go?  The truth is, few of us are. Just 3 per cent of Australians over 65 have ...

Death remains the inevitable conclusion to the lives of all of those who reach advanced old age. And despite all the advances of modern medicine, it also continues to end the life of those who won’t ever get to grow ...

In the five-year period between 2011–12 and 2015–16 there was a nearly 30 per cent growth in palliative care hospitalisation. Add to this the 160,00 Australians who die each year – 70 per cent due to expected causes – a ...

“Dying is an art, like everything else.” So said Sylvia Plath in her poem, Lady Lazarus. And like any art, it is often hard to fathom what works best: and with dying we only get one chance to get it ...