CareSearch Blog: Palliative Perspectives

The Wesley Hospital Nurse Practitioner, Nicole Hutchinson tells us about the palliative care team's use of the caring@home package for carers to enable the discharge of patients who choose to be cared for at home in collaboration with the community palliative care team. 

With more older Australians choosing to be cared for, and die at home, if possible, Level 3 & 4 Home Care Package providers need to ensure service provision meets the end-of-life and palliative care needs of their clients.

The caring@home resources can be used by providers to help deliver high-quality, person-centred, end-of-life care aligned to consumer wishes and the new Aged Care Quality Standards.

Jacqui Culver, Nurse Practitioner from Anglican Care tells us about Home Care Package providers successfully introducing and using the caring@home resources. 

Rachel Bilton-Simek, Palliative Education Coordinator from Clare Holland House in Canberra reports on her experience in implementing the caring@home resources into practice across the ACT.