Clinical Education Resources

• Paediatric palliative care, a personal story – Maria Heaton
• Speech pathology and palliative care – Prudence Ellis
• Tips for care workers, a personal story – Maria Heaton
• Respiratory symptoms and managing secretions in end of life care – Dr Caitlin Sheehan
• Bereavement – Professor Liz Lobb
• Depression – Dr Sarah Thompson
• Nutrition and palliative care – Ms Melissa Scattergood
• Loss, grief and bereavement – Professor Liz Lobb
• Cancer rehabilitation – Dr Andrew Cole

• CareSearch: Petra van Vliet talks about her role as family support worker in palliative care
• All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC): Rehabilitative Palliative Care

A selection of podcasts covering a wide range of topics that may be of interest to Allied Health practitioners:

• The US Center to Advance Palliative Care has developed a website called ‘Get Palliative Care’ . Here you can access podcasts from a series called ‘A Quality Life’, The podcasts relate to palliative care in America but much of what is said is relevant to Australia.
• The AmiPal Podcasts is a podcast about technology, innovation and research relevant to palliative (hospice) care.

The following power point presentations have been made available with permission. You can find presentations, posters and abstracts searching the Grey Literature Database:

• Ronna Moore – The Role of Skilled Compassionate Touch in Grief Support (1.03MB pdf). Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement (ACGB) Conference (August 2018).
• Ngaire Hobbins – Nutrition Care in Later Dementia (743kb pdf). From Hunter Dementia Alliance Nutrition Care in Later Dementia (August 2017).
• Andrew Murnane – Exercise guidelines for cancer patients (859kb pdf). St Vincent’s cancer symposium (24th May, 2013).
• Claire Jacobs – Physiotherapy in palliative care (425kb pdf). St Vincent’s cancer symposium (24th May, 2013).
• Pauline Cerdor – Physiotherapy in palliative care (316kb pdf). Physiotherapist working at the Palliative Care Unit, Peninsula Health Frankston, Victoria.
• Music Therapy, Loss, and Legacies in Palliative Care Across the Lifespan (504kb pdf). Clare O’Callaghan PhD Music therapist.
• The grief experienced by parents in response to their living child with a disability that can only be treated with palliative surgery (340kb pdf). From Annie Cantwell-Bartl Psychologist.