Category Archives: palliative care

A call to prevent needless suffering: feedback from recent palliative care event

February 20, 2012 – 10:32 am

Claire Maskell of Palliative Care Australia recently wrote for Croakey about inequities in global access to palliative care and pain management. The article was a preview to the recent screening in Canberra of the award-winning documentary LIFE before Death.  It drew an audience of 200 people including parliamentarians, health professionals, members of the public and [...]

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World Cancer Day, inequities in global access to palliative care – and a film that will matter to us all, sooner or later

February 3, 2012 – 4:45 pm

On the eve of World Cancer Day, Claire Maskell of Palliative Care Australia describes global variations in access to palliative care, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. *** LIFE before death: the film Claire Maskell writes: Palliative and end of life care doesn’t get much attention in the public health world. Prevention and health promotion might [...]

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A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

January 11, 2012 – 10:25 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering from 6 October – December 23, 2011. The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that [...]

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How to improve understanding of palliative care?

December 8, 2011 – 12:01 pm

Have you any ideas for how to improve community and health professionals’ access to information and education about palliative care? If so, Erin Koop, from the CareSearch palliative care knowledge network, would like to hear from you. *** How can we improve professional and community understanding about palliative care? Erin Koop writes: In a recent [...]

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Caring for older Australians: one family’s journey highlights the need for culturally appropriate care

August 9, 2011 – 12:41 pm

The Productivity Commission’s report, Caring for Older Australians, was released yesterday and makes 19 pages of recommendations. Links to some of the coverage and analysis are at the bottom of this post. Below is a personal account which highlights the importance of these issues, as well as the need for culturally appropriate care and services. [...]

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An invitation and a note of explanation to Croakey readers

July 12, 2011 – 1:02 pm

If you have read the funding arrangements for Croakey, you will understand that editing this blog is, by necessity, very much a part-time activity for me. I am usually writing and editing articles in haste around multiple other commitments. Often I am wanting to alert readers to new reports/research etc that may be of interest, [...]

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A wealth of resources on social media, palliative care, and end-of-life experiences

June 7, 2011 – 6:47 pm

In a recent Croakey post, I asked for readers’ suggestions for improving a presentation to a Palliative Care Australia forum on how social media might help palliative care. When I came to finalise the presentation, I realised that a more appropriate title was: how can social media improve peoples’ end-of-life experiences?  (ie to focus on [...]

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How can social media help improve palliative care: any suggestions?

May 25, 2011 – 3:55 pm

Palliative Care Australia – which has been active in the news this week  – is holding a forum tomorrow at Parliament House in Canberra, as part of its efforts to develop a national consensus statement on palliative care. Issues on the agenda include: a need to integrate palliative care into the broader health and aged [...]

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