The University of Tasmania’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Understanding Dementia, draws upon the expertise of neuroscientists, clinicians and dementia care professionals in the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. You can obtain more information about the course and sign up for it here.
You can find here the response from the Centre for Palliative Care to the demise of the UK End of Life Pathways program: Centre for Palliative Care _ Victorian End-of-Life Care Coordinating Program (VEC)
The new and improved Carers Kit is now available! The kit has instructions to help carers by providing simple instructions on how to perform basic tasks safely, including how to use bath and shower stools and how to help people in and out of cars. Available: Carers Kit_Web Individual pages are available for download in the Health care workers/resource page of this website
LMRPCCS Education Calendar 2018 is the go-to education calendarfrom the Loddon Murray Region Palliative Care Consultancy Service. The courses are also on the calendar of this website.
We have moved from Castlemaine Health to Bendigo Health. Our new contacts are:
Susan Morgan, Manager, Mondays to Thursdays
susan.morgan@bendigohealth.org.au, ph 5454 9214, mobile 0447 526 626
Kylie Hart, Admin Assistant, Monday’s, Tuesday’s & Wednesdays
khart@bendigohealth.org.au, ph 5454 9215
Lung Foundation Australia has just released its updated COPD Action Plan.
Action plans are a valuable self-management tool to guide patients in recognising when their symptoms change and what action they should take at that time.
The latest version has included a ‘Feeling Sick’ section to make it easier for patients to know when to commence antibiotics or prednisolone. The three-page PDF also includes a step-by-step guide to writing a COPD Action Plan which will assist General Practitioners who are new to using them.
The plans are available as an editable PDF or in RTF to be imported in to medical software and are available here:
Indigenous-COPD-Action-Plan-Editable-pdf LFA-COPD-Action-Plan-Traffic-Lights_0515_ART-Editable-Final-15-05-15
LFA-COPD-Action-Plan-Traffic-Lights_0515_ART-Editable-Final-15-05-15
Will be held on Tuesday 26 May from 9.30 to 3pm at the Foundry Hotel, 2 Old High Street, Bendigo. Registration and details are in this brochure:Registration_Pall Care Emergencies_a
Palliative Care Victoria and Palliative Care Australia have been advocating to make it easier for people to lodge an intent to claim a Carers Allowance or Carers Payment with the Commonwealth Department of Human Services. The Department has provided them with some helpful steps to reduce the delays and frustrations that have been experienced while they are working on ways to improve the system: Process to Lodge Intent to Claim Carers Allowance or Carers Payment – April 2015
VAGO’s report on Palliative Care has been tabled in Parliament. The report can be obtained here: 20150415-Palliative-care
A workshop designed to provide health professionals with a “how to” experience of Advanced Care Planning.
When: 15 May 2015, 9am to 4.30pm
Where: Swan Hill District Health, EWducation Centre, 62 McCrae Street Swan Hill
Brochure: Education brochure 2015 with Swan Hill
The University of Tasmania’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Understanding Dementia, draws upon the expertise of neuroscientists, clinicians and dementia care professionals in the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. You can obtain more information about the course and sign up for it here.
You can find here the response from the Centre for Palliative Care to the demise of the UK End of Life Pathways program: Centre for Palliative Care _ Victorian End-of-Life Care Coordinating Program (VEC)
The new and improved Carers Kit is now available! The kit has instructions to help carers by providing simple instructions on how to perform basic tasks safely, including how to use bath and shower stools and how to help people in and out of cars. Available: Carers Kit_Web Individual pages are available for download in the Health care workers/resource page of this website
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