Palliative care conversations are often the ones we put off, until we no longer can. Yet research shows that starting these conversations earlier can change everything: for patients, families, and …
RePaDD seminar: The Conversation We Keep Avoiding Read More »
This workshop is designed for aged care professionals who wish to become a palliative mentor/resource within their workplace and share their palliative care knowledge with others and further develop their mentoring skills. Following the workshop, participants should be able to identify principles for culturally safe, supportive mentoring in the context of palliative care.
Home Care Workers play a vital role in supporting older people to remain comfortable, cared for, and respected in their own homes. By recognising the signs that a person may be approaching death and responding appropriately, Home Care Workers can make a meaningful difference to the experience of the person and their family. This webinar …
Care Workers Supporting End-of-Life Care at Home Read More »
Join Monash University for a free webinar on updating Australia's clinical practice guidelines for dementia. This webinar is for people involved in dementia practice, support or research, as well as people living with dementia and anyone interested in dementia and dementia care.
The presentation will be delivered as a Storytelling as Healing and as Education, I am hoping this approach invites practitioners into an experience that data and theory cannot convey. Storytelling plays a dual role in palliative care, trauma and grief as both healer and educator. It helps bereaved people make sense of loss by giving …
Grief Australia webinar | Placing our Footsteps Beside and Together Read More »
Intergenerational programs are programs which bring people from different generations together to participate in purposeful activities that are beneficial to all involved. The aim is to reconnect generations that may have lost touch. For older people, the programs have had a positive impact on their health and well-being with enjoyment and improved mood, and for …
Webinar Series on Ageing | Intergenerational programs in aged care: How to set it up Read More »
Managed by the Victorian Department of Health through the Commonwealth Government’s Strengthening Medicare – Supporting Older Australians initiative, the Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC) at La Trobe University will be holding 140 three-day workshops for nurses who work in all Victorian residential aged care services. The workshop includes interactive, hands-on skills development, …
Join this webinar to mark more than a decade of the Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (QuoCCA) project, a national initiative delivering paediatric palliative care education to health professionals across Australia. This webinar will reflect on the program’s origins and impact, share key learnings, and explore how education, collaboration and innovation continue to improve care …
PCA Connect Webinar | Celebrating 10+ years of QuoCCA Read More »
Part 1: 9 am | Join Hume Region Palliative Care Consortium and explore some of the complexities of pain management and family dynamics through a dramatised case study. Part 2: 11.30 am (Limited places for part 2) | A workshop exploring grief, self-care, and collective care in the residential aged care setting.
The lecture will be delivered at Parliament House by a national leader in palliative care, Dr Michael Chapman, Director of Palliative Care at Canberra Hospital and Lead of the Palliative Care Research Unit at Clare Holland House. In line with this year’s theme, Getting to the heart of it: Big Questions. Real Answers, Michael will …