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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 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.
In the third blog for our 2021 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Ms Deb Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care at Flinders University and Dr Lauren Miller-Lewis, Positive Psychology Lecturer at CQ University, discuss the reflections of Dying2Learn 2020 participants regarding changes to funerals during COVID-19.
Oceanic Palliative Care Conference is the pre-eminent event for palliative and end-of-life care in the Oceanic region. As a sponsor and supporter of the conference, we will be publishing a series of blogs from Palliative Care Australia (PCA) and participants. In the second blog for the series, PCA's interview with Professor Meera Agar highlights the importance to invest in palliative care research.
Little is known about the effects COVID-19 pandemic has on people’s mental health or what support is needed when they know someone who has died. Professor of Palliative Care, Liz Lobb, discusses a new research study looking at the experiences of people bereaved during the pandemic.