March 11, 2019
Government trial to help elderly navigate aged care
https://www.hospitalhealth.com.au/content/aged-allied-health/news/govt-trial-to-help-elderly-navigate-aged-care-185000424#axzz5hmh8OoyjThe federal government has launched three new trial programs offering face-to-face assistance to senior Australians and their families in every state and territory, including selected rural and […]
March 11, 2019
Changing attitudes, improving lives
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l1026Palliative care has an image problem: patients and families have negative views about receiving it, and those who need it commonly enter care reluctantly or too […]
March 11, 2019
Advance Care Planning for older people: The influence of ethnicity, religiosity, spirituality and health literacy
https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/2086/17584Older people from cultural and ethnic minorities have low access to palliative or end-of-life care and there is poor uptake of Advance Care Planning by this […]
March 4, 2019
Advance care planning in dementia: recommendations for healthcare professionals
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1178224219826579The process of advance care planning in dementia is far from straightforward; as dementia progresses, the ability to consider future thoughts and actions becomes compromised, thus […]