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Palliative care-related publications in the Health and Ageing website.

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PublicationYearStatusHealth topics
Community Attitudes Towards Palliative Care – Summary Report — August 2006

The attached summary of the 2006 Report provides data and information on what Australian people know and understand about palliative care. It also reports on any changes that have occurred, in community and professional awareness of palliative care issues, since the 2003 benchmark report.

2006Current
Community Attitudes Towards Palliative Care 2006

This report is a follow-up from the 2003 Community Attitudes to Palliative Care Issues Report and provides data and information on what Australian people know and understand about palliative care, and reports any changes that have occurred in the awareness, understanding and importance of palliative care issues in the community since 2003.

2006Current
A Systematic Review of the Literature on Complicated Grief

Complicated grief is grief that involves the presentation of certain grief-related symptoms at a time beyond what is considered adaptive. The 88 studies analysed in this review were selected because they were evidence based, published in an English-language peer-review journal between 1990 and 2005, and originated in a country with a comparative health system and social and cultural similarities to Australia.

2006Current
Providing culturally appropriate palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Resource Kit

Also known as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Palliative Care Resource Kit, this publication provides strategies and training material to support staff in mainstream health services to provide culturally appropriate palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

2004Current
Guidelines for a Palliative Approach in Residential Aged Care - Enhanced version

These evidence based guidelines are intended to help practitioners in applying a palliative approach in a residential aged care facility. The document is a general guide to appropriate practice, to be followed subject to the clinician's judgement and the patient's preference in each individual case.

2004Current
The National Palliative Care Strategy - A National Framework for Palliative Care Service Development - October 2000

The National Palliative Care Strategy guides palliative care policy development and service delivery across Australia.

2000Current