Palliative Care Education

What is palliative care?

Palliative care is everyone's business

Palliative care is taken from the Latin palliare, "to cloak".  The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life for a person living with a life limiting illness and for their families and carers.  This is provided by care that addresses people's physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual needs.  They should have access to care and support, when and where they need it to help live as well as possible during their illness and for family to gain the support they need during bereavement.

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The Hume Palliative Care Consultancy Team was a major provider of palliative care education and training in the Hume Region of North East Victoria up until 30 June 2012.

The HPCCT team 2012 (clockwise from left)
Barbara Young, Anne Williams, Christine Peterson, Marissa Clarkson,
Erica Ruck and Tina Ivone

The following resources are still available to promote awareness of death, dying, grief and bereavement issues in our communities:                      

       Across the Desk Newsletters

     Christmas Trees of Remembrance in the North East 

     Cafe to Go

      Remembering Trees

     Palliative Care Links