Community Palliative Care Resources
National Palliative Care Project, caring@home, has launched new resources today to support the provision of quality end-of-life care for people who choose to be cared for at home.
The Community Palliative Care Resources Box contains a suite of resources that can be used by health professionals to teach carers who are supporting a dying person at home.
The new Resources Box is an update of the Standard caring@home Package for Carers (first released in 2018) and is based on feedback from the health care sector. The Box contains new resources for carers and refreshes existing resources to enhance their visual appeal and readability, including:
- Managing physical symptoms and Recognising dying – Tip sheets
- Understanding infusion devices – Factsheets
- Providing practical care – Step-by-step guides and short videos
- Managing subcutaneous medicines – Information brochure, factsheets, medicines diary, wall chart, step-by-step guides, syringe labels, training checklist, videos, practice demonstration kits and sharps containers.
The Resources Box is designed to be stored centrally and contains resources that can be used with several patients and families.
More information and order details are available on the caring@home website.
caring@home aims to increase access to quality and timely end-of-life care for patients who choose to be cared for, and die at home, if possible, by developing and providing nationally consistent, practical and evidence-based clinical resources and education for health professionals. This supports:
- proactive planning for end-of-life care
- families and carers to help manage end-of-life symptoms at home
- patients to be cared for in the place of their choice.
caring@home resources are free of charge and are applicable Australia-wide for clinical services, health professionals, and families and carers.
caring@home is funded by the Australian Government and led by the Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative
07 August 2024