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Overview of end of life law in Australia
Capacity and consent to medical treatment
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Advance Care Directives
Factsheet
Mythbusters
Case Study
Substitute decision-making
Factsheet
Mythbusters
Case Study
Withholding and withdrawing
Factsheet
Mythbusters
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Medication for pain and symptom relief
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Mythbusters
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Futile or non-beneficial treatment
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References
Commonwealth of Australia. A National Framework for Advance Care Directives. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2011.
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. National Consensus Statement: essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care. Sydney: ACSQHC, 2015.
Palliative Care Australia. The National Palliative Care Standards (the Standards), 5
th
Edition, Sydney: PCA, 2018.
Thomas K, Armstrong Wilson J, GSF Team. Proactive Identification Guidance (PIG) National Gold Standards Framework Centre in End of Life Care. 2016.
http://www.goldstandardsframework.org.uk/
. Accessed 6 March 2018.
Collaboration between Palliative Care Australia, Alzheimer’s Australia, COTA Australia, Aged & Community Services Australia, Leading Age Services Australia, Catholic Health Australia and the Aged Care Guild, Principles for Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Residential Aged Care, 2017.
https://palliativecare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/05/PCA018_Guiding-Principles-for-PC-Aged-Care_W03-002.pdf (613Kb-PDF)
The National Clinical Programme for Palliative Care, HSE Clinical Strategy, The Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidance: Published in July 2014, Edition number: 1.0, Review date: January 2016.
www.hse.ie/palliativecareprogramme
.
Kristjanson LJ, Cousins K, Smith J, Lewin G (2005) Evaluation of the Bereavement Risk Index (BRI): A community hospice care protocol for bereavement support. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 11(12): 610-618.
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