caring@home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People caring@home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People A Caresearch guest blog post by Professor Liz Reymond.
Supporting carers to help manage symptoms in home-based palliative care patients during the COVID-19 pandemic Supporting carers to help manage symptoms in home-based palliative care patients during the COVID-19 pandemic CareSearch Blog: Palliative Perspectives
caring@home further supports community palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic caring@home further supports community palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic A feature article in Palliative Care Australia's Palliative Matters publication
caring@home resources helping hospitals to discharge patients who want to be cared for at home caring@home resources helping hospitals to discharge patients who want to be cared for at home 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.
Services producing their own caring@home resources Services producing their own caring@home resources The funding for the caring@home project ceased in March 2021. Services should now plan to reproduce project resources on an ongoing basis. This will ensure carers can continue to be supported to help manage breakthrough symptoms safely using subcutaneous medicines for people who want to be cared for, and to die at home, if possible.
Supporting palliative and end-of-life care in the home Supporting palliative and end-of-life care in the home 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.
Taking the crisis out of an expected home death Taking the crisis out of an expected home death Jacqui Culver, Nurse Practitioner from Anglican Care tells us about Home Care Package providers successfully introducing and using the caring@home resources.
UPDATED - Implementation of the caring@home resources in the ACT UPDATED - Implementation of the caring@home resources in the ACT 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.
National Palliative Care Strategy and Projects: Enabling Better Care National Palliative Care Strategy and Projects: Enabling Better Care Professor Jen Tieman, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University and CareSearch Director writes about the National Palliative Care Stategy and nationally-funded palliative care projects and how these are enabling better palliative care.
The art of leadership can effect caring@home implementation The art of leadership can effect caring@home implementation Louise Goodwin, caring@home CNC, writes how leadership styles are important as we seek to initiate change in our workplaces.