Palliative Care
1. Support for patients, families and carers in the community
This page describes how the Australian Government, under the National Palliative Care Program, is supporting patients, families and carers in the community.
The National Palliative Care Program helps families, carers and local communities with practical support in the provision of palliative care. Increased knowledge, awareness and understanding are ways of addressing the difficulties that community providers face.
A range of initiatives to address the needs of families and communities are listed below with links to relevant web pages or publications:
- Local Palliative Care Grants Program
- Rural Palliative Care Project
- Respite care links to the Australian Governments National Respite for Carer Program
- Carer information brochures
- Community Attitudes Towards Palliative Care
- Bereavement - literature review on complicated grief
- Paediatric Palliative Care
- People living at home
- Indigenous palliative care
Program/Initiatives
- Mobile Outreach Service Plus
- National Rural and Remote Health Infrastructure Program
- Encouraging Better Practice in Aged Care (EBPAC)
- Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme
- Guidelines for Participating Optometrists
Publications
- 2012 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey – The Aged Care Workforce, 2012 – Final Report
- Consumer Directed Care Evaluation
- Australian Government response to Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration Report: Residential and Community Aged Care in Australia
- Comprehensive scoping study on the use of assistive technology by frail older people living in the community
- Changes in Caring Roles and Employment in Mid-Life: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH), July 2007
