Palliative Care - Resources

• To help you understand what palliative care is and why it matters read the CareSearch factsheet What is palliative care? (221kb pdf). For more resources, visit What is palliative care?
• The Cancer Council provide you with information on life- limiting illness that relates more specifically to advanced cancer in their Understanding Palliative Care booklet (668kb pdf).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

• When given a palliative care diagnosis, you may be wondering ‘what’s happening to me?’ This webpage explains more about palliative care and things that can be done.
• There are many online resources about palliative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Hearing other people’s experiences can often help Visit Online information and stories.
• CarerHelp has useful resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who are caring for a family member who is very sick.

Cultural and linguistically diverse people

• CareSearch lists resources providing information on palliative care and end of life care issues in more than 50 languages.
• To learn more about palliative care in Arabic, Cantonese, Greek, Italian or Mandarin see the CareSearch Videos.
• Dementia Australia have resources about dementia in a variety of languages.
• To access translated health information, Health Translations allows you to search their database of resources for information in your language. You can start by searching for ‘palliative care’.
• Palliative Care Victoria has information sheets about palliative care in different community languages: Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Karen, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish.
• Palliative Care Australia has factsheets in 21 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Karen, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
• CarerHelp has resources for carers of people with palliative care needs in the following languages:
  • ربي (Arabic)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi)
  • 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)

LGBTQI+

• CarerHelp has a range of information and resources for the LGBTIQ+ community caring for someone who is very sick and will not get better.

Living with intellectual disability

• Learn more about why dying matters by watching this video we are living well but dying matters.
• It is important to tell others what you would like to happen to you and your belongings. See an example of how you can create your End of life booklet (633kb pdf).
• To understand what happens to you as you get older read the Let’s talk about getting older booklet (4.37MB pdf).