If you are patient or carer, please talk to your general practitioner (GP) or visit the Palliative Care Australia website for more information.

Learn more about providing palliative care for First Nations people by reading Managing palliative care symptoms: A guide for health professionals

Use the Example policy and procedures document to help develop your own policies and procedure framework for using caring@home resources.

To learn more about the caring@home resources, read:

Using the Palliative Care Clinic Box

The Palliative Care Clinic Box contains resources for health professionals to use to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families helping to provide end-of-life care at home.

You can download or print the resources from the list below.

Clinical services can reproduce resources:

To learn more about how to use the caring@home resources, read our frequently asked questions.

Order a box

For clinical services supporting First Nations people

We have limited stocks of Palliative Care Clinic Boxes available.

Email caringathome@health.qld.gov.au to discuss how we can support your clinical service and your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients,  their families and carers.

Resources

Tailored for Aboriginal families Tailored for Torres Strait Islander families
Managing physical symptoms – tip sheets

Help with feeling sick in the gut (v2)

Help with feeling sick in the gut (v2)

Help with fitting (v2)

Help with fitting (v2)

Help with fluid in the gut (new)

Help with fluid in the gut (new)

Help with pain (v2)

Help with pain (v2)

Help with rattly breathing (v2)

Help with rattly breathing (v2)

Help with restlessness (v2)

Help with restlessness (v2)

Help with short of breath (v2)

Help with short of breath (v2)

Help with stress (v2)

Help with stress (v2)

Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts (v2)

Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts (v2)

Common symptoms experienced at end of life (v2)

Common symptoms experienced at end of life (v2)
Recognising dying

Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed (v2)

Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed (v2)
Understanding infusion devices (new)

About infusion pumps (CADDTM-SOLIS and CADDTM-SOLIS VIP)

About infusion pumps (CADDTM-SOLIS and CADDTM-SOLIS VIP)

About syringe pumps (NIKI T34TM, T34TM and BODYGUARDTM T)

About syringe pumps (NIKI T34TM, T34TM and BODYGUARDTM T)

About infusion devices (SurefuserTM+)

About infusion devices (SurefuserTM+)
Providing practical care (new)

How to care for the eyes and the nose

How to care for the eyes and the nose

How to care for the mouth

How to care for the mouth

How to change a pad

How to change a pad

How to move and position a person in bed

How to move and position a person in bed

How to wash a person

How to wash a person

Watch the video; How to move and position a person in bed

Keeping your medicines safe (new)

Keeping your medicines safe

Keeping your medicines safe

Managing subcutaneous medicines

Information brochure for families - Helping to manage symptoms at home

Information brochure for families - Helping to manage symptoms at home

Help manage symptoms at home

Help manage symptoms at home

Put the medicine in the syringe

Put the medicine in the syringe

Give the medicine under the skin

Give the medicine under the skin

Medicines book

Medicines book

Wall chart

Wall chart

Syringe labels

Training checklist and carer/family post-training competency assessment
Training videos – see all videos (including Indigenous language voiceover videos)

Video 1 – Caring for your loved one at home

Video 2 – Help manage symptoms at home

Video 3 – How to put medicine in a syringe

Video 4 – How to give medicine under the skin

caring@home Indigenous app

Access all resources anytime, anywhere

The free caring@home Indigenous app supports health professionals providing home-based palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their families. Read or print resources to teach families and carers how to provide practical care and safely manage subcutaneous medicines for a person at home. Use them offline after downloading.