Palliative Care in Aged Care

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Updated 04 Apr 2024 Certificate ANCC Accredited

This Ausmed Course identifies that with the expansion of palliative care in the community, there is a potential gap in the workforce of clinicians and carers that can provide competent quality palliative care services. Primary healthcare providers need to know how to discuss advance care planning with people both in the community and within residential aged care facilities. Topics include:

Content

5 Video Units • 13 Questions
Welcome to the Palliative Approach
3m
Pretest
1 Question
Advance Care Planning
3 Questions
8m
A Palliative Approach
4 Questions
16m
Pre-reflection
1 Question
End of Life Care
3 Questions
11m
Conclusion
1m
Post-reflection
1 Question

What you'll learn:

1

Apply the concept of advance care planning (ACP) to clinical situations to effectively recognise when it is appropriate to commence an ACP conversation.

2

Implement a palliative approach to care to improve the quality of life.

3

Identify when a care recipient is in the final stages of life to best ensure the person experiences a peaceful and dignified death.

Who it's for:

All staff working in the aged care sector, both in the community and in residential aged care facilities. It is suitable as an introduction to the topic for nurses and to ensure that personal care staff have an awareness of its importance.

Why it's needed:

It is imperative that aged care staff see palliative care as a core skill to ensure residents experience a peaceful and dignified death. All patients with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers will require support and care from health professionals who understand and are skilled in the palliative approach to care.

Improvements in palliative care will become more challenging as the population ages and the palliative care workforce ages with it. There will not be enough specialist palliative care services to meet the need, and it is essential that primary care is primed to take an increasing share of the palliative care burden.

Purpose:

Enable important conversations about advance care planning and palliative care to take place between care recipients, family members and health professionals, in order to enhance the provision of quality palliative care and the palliative approach.

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Last updated04 Apr 2024

Published12 Mar 2017

Due for review30 Aug 2025
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