Teen terminal illness blurs boundaries
Working with adolescents and young adults with a terminal illness calls for special training.
Pain relief program wins national teaching award
A program that is successfully addressing a humanitarian need for palliative care within the Asia Pacific region has won a national teaching award.
Award for Flinders palliative care pioneer
Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks, former head of Palliative Care at Flinders, has received the award of Senior Australian of the Year (SA).
Oxygen care may not be best at home
Home oxygen is not always the best treatment for people in the final stages of lung or heart disease or cancer, a Flinders University palliative care specialist says.
Musical therapy for the dying
A near-death experience in a Libyan hospital when he was five has helped shape the career of palliative care nurse Konrad Craig.
Website launched to help people make informed palliative care decisions
An Internet resource has been developed to provide reliable palliative care information to the estimated 100,000 Australians who each year face a life threatening progressive illness. […]