Palliative Care

Australia

Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing - Palliative Care

This site, produced by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, provides key documents on palliative care in Australia, including the National Strategy for Palliative Care in Australia 1998-2003.

Bereavement Care Centre

The site provides comprehensive and accessible counselling and support services for the terminally ill and their families, for the bereaved and for health professionals. Includes book reviews and resources.

CareSeach

The evidence based (Care Search ) project has been carried out by the Deptartment of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University and was funded by the Department of Health and Ageing. The CareSearch project aims to capture Australia's missing palliative care literature, eg., conference abstracts, theses, journal articles and grey literature, and make it available to practitioners, educators and researchers.

Grieflink

Based in South Australia the Grieflink website is an information resource on death-related grief for the community and professionals

Palliative Care Australia

This is the site of the national peak body for palliative care in Australia. It offers information about palliative care issues, fulltext articles including guidelines and standards and multilingual brochures. It also includes a national directory of palliative care services, information on research programs, the organisation's newletter and a media releases section.

 

Palliative Care Council of South Australia

This site aims to answer common questions on what palliative care is and contains the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995 with an accompanying explanation of this document. It also includes information in languages other than English, resources for health professionals and links to other organisations.

Palliative Care Victoria

A valuable site as it offers multicultural palliative care guidelines and general information in a wide variety of languages.

 

 

International

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

"The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is an organization of physicians and other medical professionals dedicated to excellence in and advancement of palliative medicine through prevention and relief of patient and family suffering by providing education and clinical practice standards, fostering research, facilitating personal and professional development, and by public policy advocacy."

Edmonton Palliative Care Program

An informative site with a clinical information section which reviews palliative care topics, offers tips for health care workers in the field and provides a journal current awareness service. A separate section for patients and their families defines palliative care and provides basic information regarding death, dying, grief and bereavement.

 

Growth House

A major palliative care resource covering related topics such as grief, pain management, dying with dignity issues, hospice and homecare. Described as "the internet's leading online community for end of life care".

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

This site is a good source of general information. Answers questions such as "what is hospice care?" and "how is it different to palliative care?"

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