Aged care services have a unique role and purpose in supporting older people as they come to the end of their life. This responsibility sits amidst a changing framework of regulation and sector expectations from policy makers, the community and older people themselves. It can be hard to decide how to deal with problems including problems relating to palliative care and end of life care.
Services need pragmatic and sensitive solutions to support them in recognising, delivering and evaluating palliative care and end of life care. We have worked with the sector to identify and create solutions to some of the challenges they are facing in delivering quality care. What we mean by a solution is an actionable process to address a specific issue or concern that has been identified by aged care relating to palliative care and end of life care.
We invite services to get involved in designing further solutions and in helping us improve the solutions we have already developed. If you would like to talk with us about our service solutions, please email us: palliaged@flinders.edu.au. We are keen to continue this conversation with the sector.