ELDAC - Information and Services - Bereavement
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Bereavement

Care for the caregiver and family after a death

  •  Carer Information: contains resources you can give to carers and families to help them care for someone with a life-limiting illness.
  •  How to Guide: walks you through the steps to deliver best-practice care, including online training for health professionals.
  •  Forms and Templates: provides standardised paperwork, checklists and templates to care for people living with a life-limiting illness.
Bereavement - ELDAC Care Model
  • Patient/Carer Information
  • How to Guide
  • Forms and Templates
CareSearch

Patients and Carers
CareSearch has specific resources for patients with palliative care needs and for their carers

CarerHelp website
CarerHelp is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. It aims to empower family carers who provide care to someone with a terminal illness.
Clinical Excellence Commission, NSW Government

Understanding Your Grief
Provides informational support to help carers to understand, anticipate and respond to grief

http://www.cec.health.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/359325/LDOL-Toolkit-Understanding-Your-Grief.pdf (459kb pdf)

Palliative Care Australia

Guide to a Social Media Afterlife
Provides information about how to manage a loved one’s social media accounts after death

https://palliativecare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PCA001_Social-Media-Guide_ONLINE.pdf (417kb pdf)

 

Understanding Grief
Provides informational support to help carers to understand, anticipate and respond to grief

https://palliativecare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2015/05/PCA002_Understanding-Grief_W02.pdf (416kb pdf)

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
CareSearch

Following up the Bereaved
Guidance for GPs in following up with the bereaved caregiver

https://www.caresearch.com.au/caresearch/tabid/3434/Default.aspx

Health.vic

Palliative care - grief and loss
Guidance for healthcare staff in supporting grieving families

https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/hospitals-and-health-services/patient-care/older-people/palliative/palliative-grief

MNDcare

Bereavement
Guidance for supporting bereavement of a carer of a person with MND

https://www.mndcare.net.au/End-of-life/Bereavement.aspx

Clinical Excellence Commission, NSW Government

Bereavement Survey
A survey for carers post death about the experience in your institution

http://www.cec.health.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0011/359264/Bereavement-survey.docx

Page updated 22 July 2022