Palliative Care - Resources

For everyone

To help you understand what palliative care is and why it matters read the CareSearch Part of life information sheet (675kb pdf). For more resources, visit palliAGED 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 (428kb pdf).

Carerhelp has useful resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who are caring for a family member who is very sick.
To learn more about Palliative care and how to care for someone ACT Health provide a booklet a guide to Care for those with a terminal condition (751kb pdf).This offers practical advice around honouring the choices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the ACT.
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 the CareSearch Online information and stories page.

To learn more about palliative care in Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish or Ukranian see the videos and podcasts page.
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.

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 Growing older booklet (399kb pdf).

Page updated 31 October 2022