An inevitable part of life is that we will all die one day. Our Director Professor Jennifer Tieman discusses the importance of being able to learn, care and plan for death, dying and palliative care and how the Part of Life campaign aims to support us.

Dying2Learn is an online course that aims to enable Australians to be more comfortable talking about death and dying, understand what shapes our views and attitudes, and be confident when addressing issues that will affect us all at the end-of-life. In 2020 Dying2Learn will cover the topics:

• How we engage with death and dying (week 1)
• Representations of death and dying (week 2)
• What will we die of? How will we die? (week 3)
• Dying in a digital age (week 4)
• Final reflections (week 5)

This year, Dying2Learn will run from 05 October to 02 November. The course is free and open to everyone in Australia. Enrolment ends 09 October, 2020.

In the third blog for our National Palliative Care Projects series, Lachlan Puzey, Policy Officer at Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) discusses how the Palliative Care Online Training Portal is working to improve the quality of and access to palliative care skill development for aged care and health service providers.

In the second blog for our National Palliative Care Projects series, Ms Penny Neller, Professor Lindy Willmott, and Professor Ben White from the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology discuss the End of Life Law for Clinicians program and how it works to  improve clinicians’ awareness and knowledge of end-of-life law through education.

The Department of Health is supporting a number of national programs to help ensure that all Australians have access and receive the best possible palliative care and end of life care. We are dedicating a special Palliative Perspectives Blog series to highlight the goals and priorities of each of the projects in 2020-2023.

In the first blog for the series, our Director Professor Jennifer Tieman discusses the National Palliative Care Strategy and the collective role of the programs in meeting the needs of Australia’s diverse population.