caring@home

2017-2021: Symptom management for palliative patients

caring@home (Caring safely at Home Project) aims to improve the quality of palliative care service delivery across Australia. Resources are available to support people to be cared for and to die at home, if that is their choice.

Resources are applicable Australia-wide for community service providers, health care professionals and carers to support carers to help manage breakthrough symptoms safely using subcutaneous medicines for a home-based person.

Who is involved?

This project is funded by the Australian Government and is being conducted by a consortium led by Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative. The consortium members are Aged & Community Services Australia, Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association, CareSearch, Leading Age Services Australia, NPS MedicineWise, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and University of Technology Sydney.

What we are doing

• Resource Development:
  • Develop state and territory-specific guidelines for the safe handling of medicines in the community
  • Review and enhance Queensland-specific resources for carers
  • Develop a palliative medicine app for prescribers
  • Translate select carer resources into nine languages
  • Develop education and information for registered nurses, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, community pharmacists, Home CarePackage providers and allied health professionals
  • Develop workshop content for medical professionals in rural and remote areas.
• Implementation and roll out
  • Workshops in rural and remote areas
  • Communication and marketing activities
  • Conference attendance
• Project evaluation.

Timeline

The project will run from July 2017 to March 2021.

2020-2023: caring@home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

caring@home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People is a project that aims to improve the quality of palliative care service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by modifying existing caring@home resources to support people to be cared for, and to die at home, if that is their choice.

Resources will be applicable Australia-wide for clinical services, health professionals and families to support families to help manage breakthrough symptoms safely using subcutaneous medicines for a home-based palliative care patient.

Who is involved?

This project is being conducted by a consortium of Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative (lead agency), Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives, Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet and Palliative Care Australia. The project is funded by the Australia Government Department of Health.

What we are doing

caring@home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People will:

• Develop tailored family resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people based on extensive community consultation 
• Provide information and education for health professionals 
• Undertake a national rollout of the resources via communication and marketing activities
• Evaluate the project. 

Timeline

The project will run from July 2020 to June 2023

For more information about our projects

www.caringathomeproject.com.au
E: caringathome@health.qld.gov.au
T: 1300 600 007

Last updated 20 August 2020