Palliative Care Australia (PCA) has welcomed yesterday's release of the Inspector-General of Aged Care's (IGAC) 2025 progress report on implementation ...

Representatives from the Red Centre are heading to Brisbane, to see if they’ve nabbed a top gong at the 2025 national ...

Australia has only half the number of palliative care doctors needed to provide good quality care for chronically and terminally ill patients, despite increasing demand, according to new research.

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is an Australian initiative that allows SHPCS to collect nationally agreed-upon measures to better understand quality, safety, and outcomes of care.

She is also vice-president of the advocacy group Palliative Care Australia, which commissioned the online study. She also urged people to drop their wishes about end-of-life care into ordinary ...

Palliative care can help improve the quality of life for South Australians with a life-limiting illness and earlier access to these support services may help them live better.

Patients may be in palliative care for days, weeks or even months and they usually experience daily chronic pain. , such as morphine, are commonly used to relieve their pain, distress and discomfort.

National Palliative Care Week is in its 30th year, with this year's theme: 'What's your plan?, aiming to encourage conversations around end of life care.Part of this could include discussing and ...

Under the careful tutelage of Albert "Doc" Todd, patients at a South Australian palliative care service are turning plain ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle has opted not to seek further treatment in his long fight against leukemia and will receive palliative care at home, his family ...

There were gaps in people’s understanding of local supports in the event of someone dying or becoming seriously ill.

The study will examine the use of nature-derived psilocybin as a treatment for Adjustment Disorder due to a recent cancer diagnosis in the palliative care context.