INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS, FAMILIES AND CARERS

  • What is Palliative Care?
    Finding out about how palliative care will help can assist you in making informed decisions about the support you and your family would like.
  • Living with a Terminal Condition
    Living with an eventually fatal (or terminal) condition can affect physical, emotional, financial well-being. Talking about this and planning for the future can help.
  • Advance Care Planning
    Deciding now what treatment and care you want in the future.
  • Palliative Care Helpline (formerly PCIS) - 1800 772 273  
    A free telephone information and referral service for Queenslanders living with a life threatening illness and those who care for them.
  • How to Care
    Practical information to manage daily life while looking after yourself and the family.
  • Living, Caring, Working
    Dying, death and loss touch our lives in many ways. Fact sheets about living with an eventually fatal (or terminal) condition, caring about and working with someone who has been diagnosed with an eventually fatal (or terminal) condition.
  • At the End
    Accurate information about the last few weeks or days of life can help relieve fear and anxiety about this time.
  • Care for People in Specific Groups
    Particular information relating to children and the aged; people with an intellectual disability; people who are homeless or in prison; people from an indigenous or multicultural background; people living in rural or remote areas and young carers.
  • Bereavement, Grief and Loss
    People respond differently when someone dies – there is no right or wrong way to be.
  • Resources to find out more…
    A guide to finding information.