Palliative Care Useful Links

For further information on Palliative Care, you may find these links helpful:

Advance Care Planning Australia: Provide advice, support, education materials, training and volunteering opportunities to support advance care planning within the community.
CanTeen: CanTeen helps young people cope with cancer in their family. Through CanTeen they learn to explore and deal with their feelings about cancer and connect with other young people in similar situations.
Carers Australia: Carers Australia is the national peak body representing Australia’s unpaid carers, advocating on their behalf to influence policies and services at a national level.
Care Search: Access to trustworthy evidence informed Palliative Care related information to support person-centred decision-making and the transition to palliative care.
End of Life essentials: Offers free peer-reviewed online education modules on health care at the end of life in acute hospitals for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.
Grief Australia: Specialist bereavement service for individuals and families who need help following the death of someone close to them. The organisation offers free telephone support, online bereavement support groups, grief resources and information.
Grief Line: Griefline provides free and confidential counselling and support to people experiencing grief and loss across Australia, inclusive of remote, regional, rural and metropolitan regions.
Gwandalan - Supporting Palliative Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities: Education and training materials to support cultural safety within palliative care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Lifeline: Providing all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Palliative Care Australia: Palliative Care Australia aim to improve access to, and promote the need for, palliative care. They provide resources to educate the broader community around palliative care, death and dying.
Palliative Care NSW: Providing resources to educate and equip professionals, volunteers and the broader community around palliative care, death and dying.