PallConsult is a new service from Queensland Health, designed to boost the capacity of local healthcare teams to deliver patient-centred palliative and end-of-life care, especially in rural and remote parts of Queensland.
The course is designed to assist policy makers, urban planners, housing professionals and home builders. Home designers and homeowners will find it useful too.
Research shows that grandparents who are responsible for the care of grandchildren are more likely to be depressed or have health problems compared to peers.
COTA Queensland continues to work closely with Palliative Care Queensland (PCQ). The aim of the collaboration is to utilise the strengths, knowledge and experience of each organisation to promote supports available to Queenslanders to live and die well.
Consumers, carers, doctors, nurses, social workers, hospital managers and board members, mental health, aged care and disability workers and academics explored how do we, as a society, ensure we and our loved ones receive appropriate end-of-life health care that will provide us with the best quality