Palliative Care

What does palliative care look like?
Can we prepare for the end of our life? Is it indeed, our responsibility to prepare and let others know how we would like the end of our life to be?

​Today's show draws on the wisdom of 3 women who work in aged care and palliative care and can share their experience of working in an industry that is dealing with people at the most vulnerable end of their lives.

Michelle Crowe, Jennifer Smith RN and Elizabeth Dolan RN expand the conversation to give us each an opportunity to take a different attitude to approaching the end of our lives.

Resources

Palliative Care Australia

Michelle Crowe - About Michelle
The Wellbeing Sphere

Jennifer Smith - About Jennifer
Article on nurse burnout

Elizabeth Dolan - About Elizabeth
Core Care Consultancy
2015 NSW Health Nursing Midwifery Consumer Appreciation Award for her work in the community with palliative care patients and their families 

Gyl Rae blogs on our responsibility at the end of our lives
Death Dying and Passing Over - Taking Responsibility

​National Palliative Care Week

Cancer Council - Palliative Care

​ABC article on dying at home

The Conversation article on Parents' reactions can lessen or worsen pain for injured kids