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:
- Introducing caring@home resources presentation.
- How to teach carers/families to help manage breakthrough symptoms safely using subcutaneous medicines presentation
Using the resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
The resources are 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.
For clinical services supporting First Nations people
Palliative Care Clinic Boxes are no longer available for order.
We have limited stocks of Community Palliative Care Resources boxes that have been amended to contain resources to support First Nations families.
Email caringathome@health.qld.gov.au to request an amended box for your clinical service.
Resources
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.