Palliative Care – community

Office of Advance Care Planning

The Office of Advance Care Planning is a statewide service (funded by Queensland Health) that helps to promote the important processes of advance care planning.

Advanced Care Planning Australia

Advance Care Planning is thinking about and documenting your preferences for future health care

My Health Record – Add an Advance Care Plan

You can ensure your future medical care preferences are available to your treating doctors if it’s ever needed by adding it to your My Health Record.

Dying to Talk

Talking about dying won’t kill you.

What matters to me: conversation guide

The Groundswell Project

The resources promote the importance of having conversations about death and dying as part of life.

When you or a loved one is in need of palliative care support you want to be able to spend more time with those you love, and less time searching for needed support and information. The following services may assist you.

PHN – The Greater Choice for at Home Palliative Care Measure Program

The Australian Government has announced that PHNs will implement sustainable system changes to strengthen integration and coordination of services for people receiving palliative care at home. Read more about the Department of Health Greater Choice at Home Palliative Care Measure.

The program aims to improve coordination and integration of palliative care across primary, secondary, tertiary and community health services to support at home palliative care for those that choose it.

What are the objectives of the measure?

1. Improve awareness (workforce and community) and access to safe, quality palliative care at home and support end-of-life care systems and services in primary health care and community care
2. Enable the right care, at the right time and in the right place to reduce unnecessary hospitalisations
3. Generate and use data to support continuous improvement of services across sectors
4. Use available technologies to support flexible and responsive palliative care at home, including in the after-hours.

 Pal Assist

PalAssist is a service that is free for anyone who has a life limiting illness or condition, and/or their families and carers

Palliative Care Australia

Palliative Care Australia is the national peak body for palliative care.

Care Search Portal

Trustworthy palliative care information for everyone.

Carer Support

• Carers Queensland
  Carers Queensland is committed to providing specialised carer and disability support services.
• Wellways Carer Gateway Support Services
  Wellways Australia Limited is a leading not-for-profit mental health and disability support organisation with services in Queensland.
• Carerhelp
  CarersHelp provides access to useful, trustworthy information, tools, articles and videos for carers.
• LifeCircle
  Violet is a national social enterprise, making a positive contribution to the last stage of life.

Mental Health

• Carers Queensland Carer Advisor Service
  Mental Health resources for carers
• Please also see our local Mental Health Services page.

Gather My Crew

Helping people, help people. We’re changing how people offer and ask for help with our easy to use app and help guidance.

Grief is a very individual and personal journey. The following organisations provide resources and support those experiencing grief and bereavement.

GriefLine

We support Australians in their grief by providing space to be heard without judgement or labels, and offering hope and healing after loss.

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement

ACGB has been providing support for bereaved and grieving Australians.

MyGriefAssist

MyGriefAssist is a place where you will find a broad range of helpful information on loss and grief.

GoodGrief – for kids and adults

Central to the work of Good Grief is providing knowledge and skills to help understand and attend to the pain, so individuals have the best opportunity possible to live a full and productive life.

Capacity Australia

• Public and professional awareness and knowledge of human rights and decision-making capacity. Includes a range of information relating to dementia.

Dementia Support Australia

A person living with dementia, or a carer (care worker, health professional or family carer) can seek support from DSA for their self or for a person living with dementia who is experiencing behaviours and psychological symptoms that impact their care or the way care is provided.

We invite you to reach out to one of the following support organisations if you or someone you know is in need:

• Paediatric Palliative Care Service
• Precious Wings
• Bears of Hope 
• Sands
• Red Nose Grief and Bereavement
• Centre for Perinatal Psychology
• National Centre for Childhood Grief
• Lifeline

• Caring for your mob at the end of their life Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island brochure
• My Care, My Choices – ACP resources in 18 languages and details for interpreter service
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Discussion Starter
• IPEPA (Indigenous program of Experience in the Palliative Approach) Animated Video Series on palliative care

• The National Translating and Interpreter Service
• My Care, My Choices – ACP resources in 18 languages and details for interpreter service
• Palliative care fact sheets, videos and podcasts – Community languages
• Advance Care Planning Australia – Languages
• Language fact sheets, video and conversation guide
• What Matters Most Discussion Starter and cards in multiple languages

Compassionate Communities – Activating compassion at end of life

Compassionate Communities are communities in which everyday people, just like you, play a role in supporting others in our community as they age and near the end of their life.

We are currently seeking community members from across the Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast region to become Compassionate Communities champions!

You don’t need any experience to be involved, just a passion and interest in assisting your community.

As a Compassionate Communities champion, you can make a difference to the lives of those in our community nearing end of life. This could be as simple as connecting people or sharing information on services and useful resources to help our community.

You can also meet up with other members of Compassionate Communities to discuss and share ideas on how best to support our community at end of life.

Ready to make a difference?

Learn more about how you can get involved by contacting pallcare@ourphn.org.au.

What are Compassionate Communities (video)

CQ SERVICE DIRECTORY aims to provide links to strategic resources and highlight our local communities’ services and assets that can assist people connect with activities, places and people that will improve their quality of life.