Advance care planning – planning for your future health care
Advance Care Planning is a process of planning ahead for what medical treatment and care you agree to (consent) and what you…
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Organ and tissue donation – get the facts and save lives
Would you accept a life-saving transplant if you needed it? Would you want your loved ones to accept an organ…
Palliative care – living well while dying
What is palliative care? Palliative care is person and family-centred care provided to people of all ages with life-limiting illness,…
10 questions to ask about palliative care in residential aged care
Palliative care may be provided when someone has an illness that’s likely to cause death within the foreseeable future. This…
A guide to death processes – what happens when someone dies?
For many of us, we know that death is a part of life, but we have no idea about the…
A real death: what can you expect during a loved one’s final hours?
It’s hard to predict events in the final days and hours of a person’s life. Some deaths are wonderful –…