May 19 marks the start of National Palliative Care Week, which shines a light on the importance of palliative care in reducing unnecessary suffering and distress experienced by terminally ill patients and their families. Palliative care refers to ‘person and family-centred care provided for a person with an active, progressive, advanced disease, who has little or noContinue reading “What matters most?”
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What matters most in Palliative Care
To celebrate National Palliative Care Week, UTS Health sits down with Professor Deborah Parker, President-Elect of Palliative Care NSW, Chair of the Healthy Ageing Chapter of the Australian College of Nursing and Professor of Aged Care (Dementia) at UTS IMPACCT: Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation. Deborah is also co-leadContinue reading “What matters most in Palliative Care”
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