ELDAC Publications and Presentations

• Vandersman P, de la Perrelle L, Tieman J. Finding the Right Time: Aged Care Staff Perspectives on Communicating With Families About Residents’ End-of-Life Care Planning. Australas J Ageing. 2026 Jun;45(2):e70184. doi: 10.1111/ajag.70184. PMID: 42163024.
• Bindley K, Ivynian S, Rawlings-Way O, Parker D. At home until the end? A qualitative study of experiences of in-home aged care programs in the context of caring for older adults with a life-limiting illness. Palliat Care Soc Pract. 2026 Jan 19;20:26323524251408891. doi: 10.1177/26323524251408891.

• Farrer O, Tieman J. Exploring the Implications of Aged Care Reform on Allied Health Workforce and Capacity to Deliver Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Dec 8;13(24):3207. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13243207.
• Vandersman P, Tieman J. ‘Early planning makes for a good death’: residential aged care nurses’ views on caring for those in the last months of life. BMC Nurs. 2025 Jul 1;24(1):719. doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-03411-3.
• Lane AP, Tieman J. “We Work in an Industry Where We’re Here to Care for Others, and Often Forget to Take Care of Ourselves”: Aged-Care Staff Views on Self-Care. Geriatrics. 2025; 10(1):3. https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics10010003

• Vandersman P, Tieman J. ‘Technology in end-of-life care is very important’: the view of nurses regarding technology and end-of-life care. BMC Nurs. 2024 Nov 6;23(1):809. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-02475-x. PMID: 39506712; PMCID: PMC11542272.
• Farrer O, Tieman J. What Evidence Exists to Support Palliative Allied Health Practice in Aged Care: A Scoping Review. Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Oct 3;12(19):1973. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12191973.

• Tieman J, Morgan D, Jones K, Gordon S, Chakraborty A. Allied health professionals’ contribution to care at end of life in aged care settings. Aust J Prim Health. 2023 Aug;29(4):341-348. doi: 10.1071/PY22178. PMID: 36740449.
• Simonetti S, Parker D, Mack HA, Wise S. Managers’ experiences of providing end-of-life care under the Home Care Package Program. Australas J Ageing. 2023 Feb 21. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13171. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36807429.

• Rowley G, Tieman J, Jones K. Steps towards equitable care: creating web pages to highlight diversity for Australia’s aged care and end of life care workforce. Aust J Prim Health. 2022 May 20. doi: 10.1071/PY21084. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35592890.

• Sellars, Marcus and White, Ben and Yates, Patsy and Willmott, Lindy, Knowledge of End-Of-Life Law: A Cross-Sectional Survey of General Practitioners Working in Aged Care (December 2021). Australasian Journal on Ageing 2021 (online first version), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3969567 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3969567
• Tait P, Chakraborty A, Jones K, Tieman J. What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Apr 21;9(5):489. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9050489. PMID: 33919247; PMCID: PMC8143164.
• Vandersman P, Perimal-Lewis L, Tieman J. Is There an App for That? A Scoping Review of Apps for Care Workers in the Aged Care Sector. Telehealth Innovations in Remote Healthcare Services Delivery, 2021,124-134.
• Maeder A, Tieman J, Naveda B, Champion S, Agnew T. Automated topic analysis for restricted scope health corpora: methodology and comparison with human performance. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021, 775.

• ANMF(SA)  Aged Care Forum. 27 March 2026. ELDAC Resources and Research in Palliative Dementia Care. (pdf) Dr Lenore de la Perrelle.
• SA Health Rural Palliative Care Support Services RAC Link Nurses. 7 April 2026. How to use ELDAC Diversity resources (pdf). Dr Lenore de la Perrelle.

• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. Brisbane. 10-12 September 2025. Ian Maddocks Guest Lecture After death, after care: do we support families enough?: Dr Priyanka Vandersman.
• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. Brisbane. 10-12 September 2025. Bridging the gap: EOL conversations with families in aged care: Dr Priyanka Vandersman.
• Murray PHN, Shepparton.19 August 2025. Connecting Aged Care and Primary Care (pdf). Dr Lenore de la Perrelle.
• SE Sydney LHD. 20 May 2025. Talking with families: Dr Lenore de la Perrelle.
• National digital health strategy. 15 May 2025. Digital technology in Aged care (pdf) Dr Priyanka Vandersman.
• Aged care providers. 2 May 2025. Digital Technology education. Dr Priyanka Vandersman.
• Flinders Upper North LHN SA Health. 12 March 2025. Digital technology supporting end of Life. Dr Priyanka Vandersman.
• Clayton Church Homes. 4 February 2025. Talking with families presentation. Dr Lenore de la Perrelle.

• Dietitians Australia – Residential Aged Care Interest Group. 3 September 2024. Allied Health Toolkit (pdf).
• Health Innovation Community Conference. Brisbane. 5-7 August 2024. ‘Technology in end-of-life care is very important’: The view of nurses regarding technology and end-of-life care (pdf).
• Palliative Care Nurses Australia (PCNA) Biennial Conference. Melbourne. 31 July – 2 August 2024. Navigating care at the end of life: Perspectives of Australian residential aged care nurses (pdf).

• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. Sydney. 13-15 September 2023. Implementation evaluation of a novel palliative care dashboard in Australian residential aged care setting (pdf).
• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. Sydney. 13-15 September 2023. Intersectoral partnership to integrate and implement a palliative care technology into aged care: Carinity & ELDAC Flinders experience (pdf).
• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. Sydney. 13-15 September 2023. Doing Coffee with the end in mind: Creative approaches to talking about death & dying in aged care (pdf).
• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. Sydney. 13-15 September 2023. Co-Design Allied Health Toolkit to Build Capacity in Delivering Palliative Care (pdf).
• Digital Health and Informatics Network’s Digital Health Week 2023, Melbourne. 7th-9th February 2023. Optimising app interface design for an under-served workforce – How co-designing with home careworkers has shaped a resource to support end-of-life care.(pdf).

• Australasian Conference on Care of Older People. 26 October 2022 [online]. Implementation evaluation of a novel palliative care dashboard in Australian Residential aged care setting (pdf).
• Gerontech and Innovation Expo cum Summit (GIES). 13 October 2022 [online]. Digital Technologies in the Australian aged care sector: a national project experience (pdf). 26 October 2022.
• Aged and Community Care Providers (ACCPA) National Conference. Adelaide. 12-14 October 2022. ELDAC Home Care App (pdf).
• Aged and Community Care Providers (ACCPA) National Conference. Adelaide. 12-14 October 2022. ELDAC Allied Health Toolkit (pdf).
• SA Palliative Care Education in Aged Care Roundtable. 13 October 2022. ELDAC Online Self-Care Project (pdf).
• Palliative Care Nurses Association (PCNA) Conference, 1-4 May, Virtual. 2 May 2022. Implementation evaluation of a novel palliative care dashboard in Australian Residential Aged Care setting (pdf).
• Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA) Quality in Aged Care Symposium – Session 3. Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney. 21 April 2022. The ELDAC Digital Dashboard – Tracking End of Life Care Processes and Indicators for Reporting and Clinical Decision Making (pdf).
• Specialist Palliative Care in Aged Care (SPACE) Project Community of Practice. 11 April 2022.1:30-2.30pm. SPACE Self-Care Room (pdf).
• HammondCare Research Meeting. 8 February 2022. The ELDAC Digital Dashboard (pdf).

• Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA) Quality in Aged Care Symposium. 24 November 2021. The ELDAC Digital Dashboard – Tracking End of Life Care Processes and Indicators for Reporting and Clinical Decision Making (pdf).
• Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. 7 September 2021. Implementation evaluation of a novel palliative care dashboard in Australian residential aged care setting (pdf).
• Vandersman P, Tieman J. A palliative care digital dashboard for the aged-care sector [serial online]. 2021 Apr 26 [cited 2021 Nov 24]. Hospital and Healthcare.

• Flinders University Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death, and Dying (RePaDD) Seminar Session. October 2020. The Digital Dashboard Implementation Study (pdf).
• Palliative Care Nurses Association (PCNA) Conference, 22-25 November, Virtual. Developing a digital dashboard for end of life: a conceptual outline (pdf).
• The Australasian Institute of Digital Health Summit 2020, November 25, Adelaide, SA. A palliative care digital dashboard for the aged care sector: a literature-based needs analysis (presentation).

This report looked at the extent to which a specific class of remote interaction healthcare interventions supported by digital technology are currently being used, or have recently been newly developed for use, in the care of older people in Australia within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the existing Australian aged care system.

A scoping activity was undertaken to explore the opportunities and challenges of health IT integration in the Australian general practice setting. Three studies were completed that:

• Described the current health IT infrastructure, policies and initiatives relating to health technology,
• Evaluated the international peer reviewed literature on technology use in the general practice setting (including palliative care), and
• Presented a case study of an integrated health IT ecosystem of Portugal.