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These articles are part of the Palliative Perspectives blog addressing palliative care, and end-of-life care issues around ageing and aged care.
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising non-pharmacological therapy in palliative care, offering potential benefits for symptom management and overall well-being. In this blog, a group of researchers explore the potential of personalised VR therapy to improve emotional and physical symptoms in palliative care patients.
In recognition of Advance Care Planning week (18-24 March), our team asked Craig Sinclair and Rebecca Walton, researchers currently looking at the effectiveness of advance care planning, to tell us about this work and its implications for aged care.
Advance care planning ensures the preferences of aged care recipients for future care are known and respected by those providing this care. In this blog, Dr Catherine Joyce and Lesley Habel discuss the importance of advance care planning and offer practical advice on how to start and conduct these conversations with older people and their families.
A recent Australian study explored the experiences of 56 residential aged care staff in providing end-of-life care to people with advanced dementia. Madeleine Juhrmann, Jon San Martin and Josephine Clayton of HammondCare explain what this research discovered and suggests some implications for aged care.
Care provider ability to recognising when a person is at risk of deteriorating or dying is an important skill in providing quality care. Dr David Marco describes the findings of a research study into nurses’ use of one prognostic tool – SPICT – on general medicine wards.