Resources to support you

Resources to support you

palliMEDS - An app to familiarise primary care prescribers with eight palliative care medicines that have been endorsed by the Australian & New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) for management of terminal symptoms.
caring@home app and caring@home Indigenous app - To assist health professionals supporting families, carers and patients, caring@home has designed a purpose-built app to give easy and quick access to resources.
The Prompts for End-of-Life Planning (PELP) Framework guides proactive, quality end-of-life care across all care settings.
The National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List identifies four medicines for use by home-based palliative patients in the terminal phase who require urgent symptom relief.
A consensus-based list of medicines suitable for the management of terminal symptoms in community and residential aged care facilities in Australia (184kb pdf)
Managing palliative care symptoms: A guide for health professionals - Provides written and pictorial material that can be used as a guide for health professionals to assist them to support families who are caring for a person who chooses to die at home, if this is possible. (3.6MB pdf)
Introducing caring@home resources PowerPoint - This presentation may be used when introducing the caring@home resources into your service. (4MB ppt)
Conducting education for a carer PowerPoint - This presentation can be used to conduct face-to-face education sessions with nurses rather than requiring nurses to complete the online education modules developed as a part of the caring@home resources. (12MB ppt)
Read the evidence
Policy documents

Resources for carers and families

With standardised support from health professionals, quality information and resources, carers and families can confidently, safely and competently help manage end-of-life symptoms experienced by the person they are caring for.

Existing caring@home resources are focussed on teaching carers and families to manage breakthrough symptoms safely by giving subcutaneous medicines. New resources, to be released in August 2024, will support quality, home-based end-of-life care during the last 12 months of life. View the resources here.

Helplines

Need help? If you need help, contact your local Specialist Palliative Care Service or the appropriate telephone support service available in some states/territories:

Queensland	1300 PALLDR (1300 725 537) - 24/7 palliative care hotline for doctors, NPs, paramedics and pharmacists 1300 PALLCR (1300 725 527) - 24/7 palliative care hotline for nurses, allied health, Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners www.pallconsult.com.au
South Australia	1300 673 122 - Statewide 24/7 palliative care support line for clinicians
Victoria	1800 360 000 - Palliative Care Advice Service for health professionals, palliative care patients, their carers and families. Every day 7am - 10pm. advice@pcas.org.au
Western Australia	1300 558 655 - Statewide 24/7 palliative care support line for clinicians.

The caring@home Matrix document (1MB pdf) guides health professionals to choose resources to best suit families, carers and patients.

Page last updated 24 July 2024