As part of the recent aged care reforms, older Australians will be eligible for $25,000 worth of palliative support when they have three months or less left to live.
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People with illnesses that can’t be cured are often in intense pain and discomfort. They rely on opioids such as morphine for relief.
Training paramedics to provide home-based palliative care lets severely ill patients remain at home and takes pressure off emergency departments and the health system.
Finding fulfilment at the end of life is not that unusual.
The NT government has invited views on access to voluntary assisted dying. But whether it should include access for those with dementia is not so clear cut.
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Patients with incurable cancer want to be informed about their disease and its treatment, but must also maintain hope. This inner conflict can affect how they process information about their prognosis.
It’s illegal to discuss voluntary assisted dying via telehealth, which means people who live in rural areas and those who can’t physically go to see a doctor may not be able to access the scheme.
One person said they wanted a VR experience that allowed them to explore Paris again.
All of us face loss and the reality of our own mortality. Whether through in-person discussion or over social media, let’s build communities that support people navigating death and dying.
Over 20% of people diagnosed with brain cancer survive longer than five years. But the NDIS may not recognise their need for support to live, work, learn and play.
An accurate prediction of survival can enable earlier conversations about preferences and wishes at the end of life, and earlier introduction of palliative care.
Palliative care is often seen as a ‘last resort’ rather than a service that empowers terminally ill people to live as well as possible for as long as possible.
Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
The challenging realities surrounding end-of-life care are especially difficult for older people experiencing homelessness, who have more barriers to accessing hospice care.
Gaps between health systems can mean NDIS participants at the end of their lives don’t have the support of their regular NDIS support workers.
For people to access medical assistance in dying (MAID) requires health-care professionals willing to provide the service. The reasons health-care providers choose not to participate are important.
Avoiding talk of death won’t make it disappear.
Palliative care, often misunderstood, is not synonymous with hospice care.
When you prepare to talk about end-of-life decisions and the legacy you want to leave behind, try thinking about them as gifts you bestow to family and friends.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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Matthew Flinders Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying, Flinders University
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine, Aga Khan University
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Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, Flinders University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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NIHR Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King's College London
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Research Associate, Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, VCCC Chair of Palliative Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Glasgow
