Palliative Care Australia (PCA) is the national peak body for palliative care services in Australia. In the ninth blog for our National Palliative Care Project series Chelsea Menchin, National Project Manager at PCA discusses what activities they’ve planned and how they will align with the priorities in the National Palliative Care Strategy.

In the eighth blog for our National Palliative Care Project series, Suzanne Cosgrove, National Manager for PEPA, discusses the projects aims to enhance the capacity of health professionals to deliver a palliative approach and how their education activities align with the guiding principles and goals set out within the National Palliative care Strategy.

Mental health issues for older people are common and can include wide-ranging problems such as complicated grief, stress, depression, anxiety and trauma. In her second blog in this series, Felicity Chapman a Mental Health Clinician and Aged Care Specialist, explores the range of evidence-based options to treat mental health issues, focusing on the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support older people.

Advance care planning (ACP) can improve end-of-life care in line with a person’s wishes. In the seventh blog for our National Palliative Care Project series, Linda Nolte, Program Director at Advance Care Planning Australia discusses the aims of the national program and activities planned for the next three years to help improve care at the end of life.

In the sixth blog for our National Palliative Care Project series Associate Professor Kim Devery, Project Lead and Ms Deb Rawlings, Co-Lead of End-of-Life Essentials (EOLE) discuss how the EOLE project will help nurses, doctors and allied health professionals to improve the quality of end-of-life care in hospitals around Australia through their free online education and training modules.