Help improve palliative care for people with an intellectual disability

Free resources are available to help you provide quality palliative care to people with an intellectual disability: 

• Tailored model of palliative care for people with intellectual disability. 

• Toolkit for health professionals. 

• Toolkit for people with intellectual disability and supporters. 

• Easy Read story to help people with intellectual disability understand what good palliative care is.  

These resources have been developed by the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, University of New South Wales Medicine. The resources are part of the Improving Palliative Care Services for People with an Intellectual Disability Project.  

Find out more about how you can support your patients.

More information for health professionals

• Free caring@home resource: Enhancing quality and timely end-of-life care for patients