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 ...

The inaugural Health Minister’s award for nursing trailblazers has been awarded to a Canberra nurse for her work in improving the delivery of palliative care to Australians living in residential aged care. Nikki Johnston, a palliative care nurse practitioner based ...

It was just another shift working as a physiotherapist in a Melbourne emergency department. Hospitals, healthcare and aged care were all second nature to me, until I received a phone call that changed it all. It was my aunty on ...

“I was in a palliative care ward here in Sydney, and there were two nurses on a ward of 16 people who had four people actively dying, one of which was our person. Our person was really scared of being ...

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 ...