Resources

This ELDAC toolkit supports primary care providers and teams by providing palliative care and advance care planning in the context of aged care. It includes management of disease symptoms, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of care, as well as effective coordination of services across the health system.

The Residential Aged Care End of Life Care Pathway from MetroSouth (Queensland Health) is a care plan that guides the provision of good quality end of life (terminal) care. It incorporates evidence and consensus-based best practice clinical management and care coordination for dying residents.

The ELDAC Residential Aged Care Toolkit has evidence-based resources on palliative care and advance care planning that can assist you and your organisation in meeting the Aged Care Quality Standards.

The Self-Care Matters (Aged Care) resource assists aged care workers in residential facilities or community settings with practising self-care to support the quality and sustainability of the care they provide to older Australians.

The self-care room provided by ELDAC is a place for aged care workers to discover resources to use now or when needed or to download and share.

These webpages from palliAGED are a resource to guide evidence-based practice in the care of older people in the last days of their life (terminal phase).

When someone has memory loss, is confused, becomes easily upset or doesn’t talk very much, visiting can seem daunting. It can be helpful to have some strategies to make home and residential care visits more comfortable. A resources by CarerHelp.

Aged Care Quality Standards focus on outcomes for those people using their services. This palliAGED resource makes it easier for consumers, their families, carers and representatives to understand what they can expect from a service. 

What matters to me is a brochure from the Department of Health and Aged Care providing ideas on how to start the conversation about your end-of-life care.

PACOP aims to systematically improve resident, family & carer outcomes for palliative aged care. It by helps aged care homes to embed the use of standardised outcomes assessments and tools, and to use the information gathered to respond in a timely way.