palliAGED updates

Over the past two years (1 July 2023 – 30 June 2025), thousands of aged care workers, nurses, and families have accessed our free palliative care resources - both in print and online. Here's how the sector has embraced palliAGED’s practical, evidence-based tools.

We’re excited to be part of the Ageing Australia National Conference on the Gold Coast from 30 September to 2 October 2025. You’ll find us in the Exhibition Hall. Come by to explore our latest palliative care resources and chat with the team. We look forward to seeing you there!

At the last Ageing Australia Conference, we asked what would help with the new Aged Care Standards, and we’ve listened. Drawing on sector insights, our new Service Solution: Being Prepared for 1 November includes a five-step planning process. There is also a mapped sources of evidence and resources document (766kb pdf) to support the key aspects of palliative care and end-of-life care.

On 5 June, the CareSearch/palliAGED team participated in a roundtable event exploring how upcoming aged care reforms intersect with palliative and end-of-life care. Convened by the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying (RePaDD) at Flinders University, this full-day discussion brought together key stakeholders to consider the implications of the new Support at Home program and the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards coming into effect from 1 November. A summary of the roundtable discussions will be shared publicly later in the year.

We’re pleased to launch the redeveloped palliAGED website – designed to better support aged care teams delivering palliative care and end-of-life care. Explore:

• New content aligned with the strengthened Aged Care Act and Standards
• Updated evidence summaries and care guidance on key Standard themes
• A new section supporting services with practical solutions
• Free training resources to download and order
• Multilingual translation feature

Visit now to see what’s new.

There is a lot to discover in the redeveloped palliAGED website. Our new guide helps you navigate to the right information and resources for your needs, whether you're new to palliative care or an educator or manager building workforce capability. Better end-of-life care starts with this resource.

Services need to consider how they can train and support their multidisciplinary workforce, establish care processes that can identify and respond to changing needs, and facilitate compassionate conversations. palliAGED resources can help services to be prepared to support their residents, clients, families and their staff.

Just as aged care is changing so are we. The new palliAGED website is currently being reviewed. If you would like to get involved, it's not too late to provide your feedback. Have your say by Monday 17 March at 12 noon.

At the recent ACCPA conference, we asked visitors at the palliAGED booth to share their top three resource needs to help aged care services prepare for the revised Standards, particularly around palliative and end-of-life care. Thank you to everyone who participated—and congratulations to our lucky draw winner! (Pictured above.) Here’s what you identified as essential:

1. Training packages tailored for specific staff roles and competencies (67%)
2. Resources to support the wellbeing of staff involved in end-of-life care (56%)
3. Webinars and workshops on best practices for delivering this care (49%)

These insights are invaluable as our team works towards redeveloping our resources for aged care services.

Eleven aged care and palliative care experts gathered on 14 October 2024 at Adelaide's Tonsley Innovation District to provide advice and guidance to the palliAGED team in redeveloping our website. This forms part of our project's deliverables for the Commonwealth Government. Thank you to all participants for a day of stimulating discussion which we look forward to putting into action.