Palliative Care Webinars
Annual Lecture 2023 - The economics of palliative care – latest evidence on the impact of palliative care on health service costs
Just like palliative care itself, there is a lack of awareness about the health economics of palliative care. Yet in many cases, palliative care is highly cost-effective. In addition to improving the quality of life with those with life-limiting illnesses, investment in palliative care can reduce health care costs through the avoidance or reduction of unwarranted and costly diagnostics, ambulance trips, emergency department attendances and other futile care at the end-of-life. This lecture will delve into the latest evidence around the economics of palliative care, while also highlighting areas where there are gaps in the knowledge-base.
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Public Health Palliative Care: a shifting healthcare paradigm bringing benefit to people, communities and healthcare services.
Death, dying, loss and care is everyone's responsibility. Our June webinar features Dr John Rosenberg, Registered Nurse and Senior Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast in southeast Queensland.
Public Health Palliative Care (PHPC) has emerged from its beginnings in the late 1990s as Health Promoting Palliative Care.
Based on the WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, PHPC views dying, caregiving, and grief as concerns of whole communities, not just individuals or healthcare services. Through equal partnerships between communities and healthcare, people who are dying, those who care about them and those who are grieving them can obtain support from engaged communities and responsive healthcare services. In this presentation, John will provide insights into practical examples, the growing body of scholarly research and the potential benefits of this approach.
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Annual Lecture 2022 - Past, present, and possibilities: Using evidence to inform the future of volunteering across palliative care
The CPC Annual Lecture looked at Volunteering, Past, present, and possibilities: Using evidence to inform the future of volunteering across palliative care. We were joined by renowned International Professor Catherine Walshe who provided a contemporary global view on evidence and trends associated with volunteerism in palliative care and Heike Fleischmann gave us the local perspective on the issue.
The Annual Lecture is suitable for all in the health care sector including current or past volunteers or anyone interested in learning more about volunteering in the palliative care setting.
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August 2022 - Enhancing support for family carers of people with serious illness
Palliative care aims to enhance the quality of life of people living with serious and life-limiting illness and their family carers. However, despite policy and clinical guidelines highlighting the importance of the integration of a family approach to palliative care, evidence based systematically applied psychosocial support for family carers is still underdeveloped.
Presented by Professor Peter Hudson (Director Centre for Palliative Care) and facilitated by A/Prof Dr Mark Boughey, the webinar is available to all, however it is primarily targeted at health care professionals involved in caring for people living with a serious illness and their family carers.
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May 2022 – Advance Care Planning: Is it worth doing?
Advance Care Planning has come under the spotlight in recent months with publications in medical journals describing Advance Care Planning as not worthwhile and not achieving what it aims to do. Other authors have refuted this and provided evidence for its benefit. Where does the truth lie? Do the criticisms have merit? Do those who support Advance Care Planning have valid arguments?
In this session, both sides of the argument will be addressed and a case for Advance Care Planning will be provided. An expert panel will further explore this topic and answer audience questions.
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February 2022 – Defining and developing the concept of death literacy.
Death Literacy is defined as the knowledge and skills that people need to make it possible to gain access to, understand, and make informed choices about end of life and death care options.
People and communities with high levels of death literacy can put this knowledge into practice. This presentation will invite you to consider the concept of death literacy and how it might apply to your setting and provide a strengths-based framework for supporting patients, families, and their communities. This will include information about the Death Literacy Index, its development and its use.
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Webinars are available on our website for 12 months from date of recording