In the final blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Dr Gursharan Singh, Research Fellow at QUT, highlights why understanding hospital-based service use by individuals with heart failure is crucial to inform health service development - including palliative care services.

In the eighth blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Juliane Samara a Nurse Practitioner at Calvary ACT Specialist Palliative Aged Care discusses a new intervention called Palliative Care Needs Rounds (PCNR) and how it can be used to improve palliative and end-of-life care coordination in residential aged care facilities (care homes).

In the seventh blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Associate Professor Megan Best from the University of Notre Dame Australia discusses why spiritual care is important in palliative care, and how training in spiritual caregiving can support healthcare professionals.

In the sixth blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Kylie Ash and Sharon Wetzig from the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative introduces the Palliative Care Education (PaCE ) Directory app.

In the fifth blog for our 2021 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Dr Kerrie Noonan from the Death Literacy Institute discusses their project using a death literacy index to develop and deliver peer-led community-based death literacy training for older Australian’s aged 55 and over.