The Chief of Australia's leading palliative care organisation has called to embed end-of-life services into aged-care homes after new data showed increased pressure on public hospitals. Last week the Australia Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reported that the number ...

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 ...

An aged care provider has spearheaded a palliative care program to raise the sector's awareness and increase support for family members. Not-for-profit organisation HammondCare has been trialling 'The Last Days' program over the past year and will officially launch the ...

A long-time nurse has been celebrated for bringing palliative care to the fore in Australia's aged and healthcare system. RSL LifeCare resident 89-year-old Teresa Plane became NSW Senior Australian of the Year 2023 this month for her outstanding efforts in ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Australia is set to become a leader in palliative care research, thanks to a $60 million grand for end-of-life care projects. South Australia will particularly benefit, as Flinders University received $8 million for its palliative care related research. College of ...