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In the fourth blog for our 2021 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Associate Professor Odette Spruijt shares insights about Project Hamrahi, and how it helped strengthen palliative care services in India through ongoing and mutual education.
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.
Gabrielle Prest from Opal Health Care provides insight into how the aged care provider is optimising palliative care and end-of-life care for their residents and how the palliAGED Introduction modules for aged care nurses is assisting in this transformation.
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.