- ELDAC
The End of Life Directions in Aged Care project has developed toolkits to guide end of life care according to the setting of care.
- Therapeutic Guidelines: Palliative Care (subscription required)
An overview of palliative care
- For GPs, CareSearch
Resource that addresses the reality of palliative care for GPs
- CareSearchgp App (free)
Smartphone app for GPs to support care of palliative patients living at home or in residential care. It includes terminal prescribing advice.
- palliMEDS
The essential app for primary care prescribers supporting palliative care patients, now featuring paediatric palliative medicine prescribing information and a weight-based dose calculator. palliMEDS has prescribing information about palliative care medicines identified by clinicians across Australia (773kb pdf) as the most useful to manage common symptoms in home-based palliative care patients in the last few weeks of life. The app is free to download and available on iOS and Android devices.
- Primary Health Networks (PHNs)
Primary Health Networks are supporting primary care to improve care delivery and care coordination in the community. There six agreed priorities for targeted work by PHNs and aged care is one of these. Contact your local PHN to find out what resources they have available for aged care and end-of-life care.
Page updated 28 April 2026