ELDAC (End of Life Directions for Aged Care) provides information, guidance, and resources for all aged care staff to support palliative care and advance care planning.
The Victorian VirtualEmergency Department is a free virtual care service operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for any one in Victoria. Adults and children experiencing non-life threatening emergencies can access it. All you need is a personal device with a camera and internet to connect with nurses and doctors.
The Palliative Care Advice Service offers free, confidential advice for all Victorians seeking information about life-limiting illness, palliative care or end-of-life care.
Free Education, placements and workshops for you and your facility.
Help identify people with deteriorating health due to a new serious illness, one or multiple health conditions, or frailty in older age.
Clear and easy to read signs of deterioration.
Clear examples of functional status for your resident.
Palliative care evidence and practice information resource for the Australian aged care sector.
Palliative care evidence and tools for health professionals and information about death and dying.
A suite of documents designed to be embedded into daily work schedule, which assesses for pall care needs and triggers responses.
Tables assisting with rotation across different medications and routes.
Safer Care Victoria charts on compatible syringe driver medications.
We find the Gippsland flow chart on this document particularly helpful for anticipatory prescribing.
Using an End-of-Life care pathway is the ideal (and recommended) way to standardise care and ensure consistent and high quality care is delivered to your residents.
An end-of-life care pathway guides and monitors a person’s journey of care between health professionals and across settings. It can help prompt terminal care and encourage discussion with the person and their family. It can guide appropriate and timely prescribing and decision-making.
End-of-life care pathways use documents, sometimes flowcharts, to outline the steps of care to be followed by members of multidisciplinary teams.
Sam has worked in Palliative Care for over 11 years. Her current experience in Palliative Care informs her motivation to strengthen the palliative care approach in Residential Aged Care Facilities and Residential Disability Accommodation Services.
Sam feels that with good support and direction, clients in these facilities can receive holistic and quality-of-life centred care and a dignified death.
e: sam.moorhouse@seymourhealth.org.au
m: 0428 481 352
Rose has been working in the Hume region since 1997, across Acute and Aged Care services. She has actively pursued education and expertise in end-of-life care and is a passionate advocate of high-quality palliative care and Advance Care Planning. Rose also works with the team at Wangaratta Community Palliative Care, and she is excited to be working in this dynamic space.
e: rose.sexton@nhw.org.au
m: 0476 656 196