Free caring@home resource: Enhancing quality and timely end-of-life care for patients
With the right support, primary healthcare providers can work with carers and families to help manage pain and other symptoms for people who choose to be cared for at home or in the community. The caring@home team have developed a useful quick-reference guide, called the Resource Matrix for carers and families, to help identify the resources that are best suited to each person’s unique circumstances.
Acknowledging the diverse needs of people who are at the end of their life, and the needs of their families and carers, clinicians are guided to use their professional judgement to decide which of the range of caring@home resource kits will best suit their patient’s needs.
For example, some patients and their families and carers will:
benefit from the translated versions of the resources
want resources that have beens tailored to support care at home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
prefer to have a lot of information and enjoy reading the practical handbook for carers
want to keep it simple and prefer to receive only the symptom control tip sheets appropriate for their needs.
Access the Resource Matrix for carers and families.
About caring@home
caring@home is funded by the Australian Government and led by the Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative with the aim to increase access to quality and timely end-of-life care for patients who choose to be cared for and die at home.
caring@home works to develop and provide nationally consistent, practical and evidence-based clinical resources and education for health professionals to support:
proactive planning for end-of-life care
families and carers to help manage end-of-life symptoms at home
patients to be cared for in the place of their choice.
caring@home resources are free of charge and are applicable Australia-wide for clinical services, health professionals, and families and carers.
Contact caring@home
More information is available from www.caringathomeproject.com.au.
You can contact caring@home on 1300 600 007, or via caringathome@health.qld.gov.au.