Palliative care
ALTERNATIVE LABELS
Hospice
Palliation
Palliative medicine
Palliative treatment
NARROWER TERMS
Briefing paper
Ensuring the quality of palliative care in Australia’s prisons
Australia’s prison population is growing and ageing, which is placing an increasing burden on the provision of healthcare in prison. This paper highlights the significant gap in national data about all elements of palliative care need and provision in prisons, and describes how data collection...
Journal article
Palliative care education in the Asia Pacific: challenges and progress towards palliative care development
While access to palliative care is recognized internationally as a human right, from a global health perspective, there are many gaps within the professional services that provide palliative care together with corresponding health inequities for people needing to access palliative care. Palliative care development, or...
Guide
Yarning about sad news and sorry business
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with Health Consumers Queensland, gathers insights and perspectives from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in Queensland on engagement and consultation processes in relation to palliative care.
Report
Death Literacy Index: a report on its development and implementation
The Death Literacy Index (DLI) provides a means to measure and research public health palliative care initiatives, including those under the umbrella of Compassionate Communities, by exploring the ways in which community members’ knowledge and practice are enhanced through these initiatives. This report provides an...
Report
Investing to save: the economics of increased investment in palliative care in Australia
This report calls for an overhaul of the palliative care system in Australia, including an additional annual investment of just over $350 million, which will result in a saving of over $450 million across the broader health care system every year.
Report
Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia
This report recommends that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) review and improve its online resources for health professionals relating to the regulations and processes for prescribing medicinal cannabis through the Special Access Scheme and Authorised Prescriber pathways.
Journal article
Improving palliative and end-of-life care for rural and remote Australians
This article in describes the development and implementation of the Far West NSW Palliative and End-of-Life Model of Care, a systematic solution that could drive improvement in the provision of a quality palliative approach to care and support from any clinician in a timely manner...
Report
Exploratory analysis of barriers to palliative care
This report describes key barriers and promising approaches for improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ experience of palliative care in Australia. It covers advance care planning and ways the palliative care sector can improve access and quality of care for this group.
Report
Prevalence of advance care planning documentation in Australian health and residential aged care services report 2019
This study identifies a number of important findings relating to advance care planning document uptake relevant to policy makers, health and residential aged care service providers and workforce, palliative care services, researchers, and the general public.
Journal article
Passing on wisdom: exploring the end-of-life wishes of Aboriginal people from the midwest of Western Australia
This journal article brings together insights gained through two different types of discussion about dying and end-of-life wishes with Aboriginal people.
Discussion paper
Dying well: improving palliative and end of life care for people with dementia
This paper calls for more education and support to encourage the creation of advance care plans for people diagnosed with dementia to be paramount. It emphasises the need for the planning and communication with health professionals and family about the plan, to occur early –...
Report
Palliative care services in Australia: September 2019 update
In Australia, and many other parts of the world, the demand for palliative care services is increasing due to the ageing of the population and the increases in the prevalence of cancer and other chronic diseases that accompany ageing.
Statistics
Revisit review of South Australia's Palliative Care Services Plan 2009-16: statistical addendum
This report forms a statistical addendum to complement the Health Performance Council’s Revisit review of South Australia’s Palliative Care Services Plan 2009-16.
Report
Palliative care in the Pacific: initial research
This report presents an initial examination of palliative care across the Pacific region. There is scarce literature on palliative care in Pacific island countries and territories, but the documented disease profile shows a need for expanded palliative care.
Report
Palliative care in the Pacific: initial research
Oxfam New Zealand’s Advocacy and Campaigns Director, Joanna Spratt, finds there is scarce literature on palliative care in Pacific island countries and territories, but the documented disease profile shows a need for expanded palliative care as well as more funding; leadership; support training, coaching and...
Case study
Revisit review of South Australia’s Palliative Care Services Plan 2009-16
This review is a five‐year revisit of the 2013 report, Improving end of life care for South Australians. That report was a midpoint examination of the implementation of South Australian Health's Palliative care services plan 2009‐16, which outlined the South Australian government’s commitment to expand...
Report
Experience internationally of the legalisation of assisted dying on the palliative care sector: final report
This report examines the international experience on the palliative care sector of the legalisation of voluntary assisted dying (VAD).
Briefing paper
Integrated information networks to support end-of-life care in general practice
Australia’s population is ageing and with this trend comes the burden and complexity of increasing physical illness and disability. This burden escalates as a person nears death and as a consequence, the cost of care becomes disproportionately high in the last year of life. Currently...
Report
Palliative care services in Australia: May 2018 update
The goal of palliative care is to improve the quality of life of patients with an active, progressive disease that has little or no prospect of a cure. With the growth and ageing of Australia's population, and an increase of chronic and generally incurable illnesses...
Report
Life before death: improving palliative care for older Australians
Several myths undermine the broader benefits that good palliative care can provide for patients.
Journal article
Incidence, duration and cost of futile treatment in end-of-life hospital admissions to three Australian public-sector tertiary hospitals: a retrospective multicentre cohort study
The aims of this study are to estimate the incidence and duration of futile treatment in end-of-life hospital admissions and to assign a monetary value to the hospital bed days that were used.
Report
Planning and evaluating palliative care services in NSW
This NSW Auditor-General audit report finds that there is no overall policy framework for palliative and end-of-life care in the state, nor is there comprehensive monitoring and reporting on services and outcomes.
Report
Review of adult palliative care services in New Zealand
Summary: This review presents a refreshed strategic direction for adult palliative care and proposes a suite of initiatives to help manage future increases in demand for palliative care. We know that as people live longer there will be more people with complex conditions who will...
Strategy
Palliative care action plan
New Zealand’s population is ageing and an increasing number of people are living longer. All sectors recognise the imperative to prepare for these trends. In the health sector, our system needs to change to meet the growing demand for palliative care, which is projected to...
Report
Inquiry into end of life choices: final report
During this inquiry, the Committee received 1037 submissions, 925 from individuals in a private capacity and 112 from organisations. The overwhelming majority of individual submissions discussed assisted dying. Only a small number focused solely on palliative care.