Greater Choices for At Home

Palliative Care measure

The Greater Choices for At Home Palliative Care measure aims to enhance workforce capacity, improve coordination between health services, increase consumer awareness of available supports, and enable informed choices regarding preferred places of care and death.

COORDINARE’s key activities and achievements under the program’s priority areas include:

70 community members attended 6 Last Days workshops (4 face-to-face, 1 online, and 1 focused on dementia).

350+ discussion starter and information packs to support and aid Advance Care Planning distributed at various community events.

43 key stakeholders consulted for review and redesign of Palliative and End of Life Model of Care. Feedback contributed to the development of Palliative Approach Framework for the entire region, due for release October 2024.

284 participants attended 14 educational webinars on various topics, including Palliative Care and Voluntary Assisted Dying.

Launched self-paced learnings webpage which received 332 views by 236 users.

Consultation and review identified 10 key recommendations for improving palliative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. A working group was established to address recommendations; facilitated by Palliative Care Project Team.

I find the most valuable information that I would love to share with the palliative care team when I'm sending a referral is the patient’s status: What he’s like at home? Does he have support? i.e. He has family, but they live two hours away. This isn’t possible to include on the current form.

General Practitioner

Part of Model of Care review and redesign consultation

Knowing what to expect early with mums’ deterioration would have made a big difference with the whole palliative care experience.

Consumer

Part of Model of Care review and redesign consultation

The Greater Choices for At Home Palliative Care program is designed to increase consumer awareness of the importance of advance care planning and to improve how palliative care providers coordinate and deliver care.

By enhancing both access to, and the quality of palliative and end-of-life care, the program aims to achieve better outcomes for patients and their families.

Want to find out more?

Visit COORDINARE's palliative and end of life care webpage for further information and resources.
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