Regional GP's perspective on home-based palliative care
Regional GP's perspective on home-based palliative care

Regional GP's perspective on home-based palliative care

Dr. Hepper writes on her experience with community-based palliative care in regional Victoria, involving carers in the management of breakthrough symptoms and the relevance of the caring@home package for carers and related resources in breaking down barriers to home-based care for terminally-ill people.  

Evaluation of The Just in Case Box project
Evaluation of The Just in Case Box project

Evaluation of The Just in Case Box project

The Just in Case Box (JiCB) was a four-year project implemented as part of hospice@HOME in Tasmania.  Its purpose was to provide equitable access to timely symptom relief for people with a life limiting illness who expressed a preference to die at home.  It formed part of the overall end-of-life plan and included the pre-emptive provision of subcutaneous medicines (recommended by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine) and consumables.

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