Palliative Care Recipients - Supportive Services Overview
Palliative Care Recipients FAQ
What is palliative care?
Palliative care is person and family-centred treatment, care and support for people living with a life-limiting illness. A life-limiting illness is an active, progressive, or advanced disease, that has little or no prospect of cure and that you’re likely to die from at some point in the future.
What are palliative care-related hospitalisations?
Palliative care-related hospitalisations are those episodes of admitted patient care where palliative care was a component of the care provided during all or part of an episode of admitted patient care. These hospitalisations can be divided into 2 groups depending on how they are identified in the hospital data:
How does palliative care help people living with a life-limiting illness?
Palliative care helps people live as fully and as comfortably as possible with a life-limiting illness. Find out where you can receive palliative care, what it costs, how to get it, and what we are doing about palliative care. Palliative care is treatment, care and support for people living with a life-limiting illness.
Should palliative care be available?
Palliative care should be available to all people living with an active, progressive, advanced disease, regardless of the diagnosis. Palliative care afirms life while recognising that dying is an inevitable part of life.
Who provides palliative care?
Palliative care may be provided by a wide range of people, this may include your GP, aged care worker, cardiologist and any other health care professional, as well as family and other carers. They are supported by specialist palliative care services if symptoms become difficult to manage.
Who is the primary recipient of care in paediatric palliative care?
The primary recipient of care in a health service organisation. In paediatric palliative care, the primary recipient of care incorporates the guardian.6a,12a An approach to the planning, delivery and evaluation of health care that is founded in mutually beneficial partnerships among clinicians and people receiving care.
Where can I find information about palliative care?
For information on palliative care services in your local area, ask your GP or visit the National Palliative Care Service Directory. You can also learn more about palliative care on the Department of Health and Aged Care website. When someone you care for approaches the end of life, grief is a natural emotion.
Palliative Care Recipients References
If you want to know more about Palliative Care Recipients, consider exploring links below:
What Is Palliative Care Recipients
- https://www.health.gov.au/topics/palliative-care/about-palliative-care/what-is-palliative-care
- https://palliativecare.org.au/resource/what-is-palliative-care/
- https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/palliative-care
- https://mccsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Palliative-Care-FAQ-and-Resources.pdf
- https://www.cancer.org.au/assets/pdf/understanding-palliative-care-booklet
- https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/bc347443-4bc9-4a94-80f5-c5db4a5ddd4d/aihw-pcsia-2023-summary-of-palliative-care-services-in-australia.pdf