Are you providing enough medication to ease a person's pain and symptoms at the end of life? Research suggests that health professionals may be afraid to provide palliative medicine because they are worried about whether it is lawful, particularly when a person is close to death.

Did you know that in the next 25 years, the number of Australians who die each year will almost double? Australia needs to be ready to care for older people as they come to the end of their life, and ELDAC has been funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to help meet this need.

Thank you to the thousands of people who have signed up for ELDAC alerts across social media and our newsletter in the first six months since our national launch. As word about ELDAC continues to grow, our website has helped almost 20,000 people across aged care, home care and clinical settings.

Do you want to improve advance care planning and palliative care services given to older people in your care? Could you achieve these goals by working in partnership with other organisations? Would you like help to access other services for support in caring for older people at the end of life?

Knowing the law and how it applies at the end of life can be complex and confusing. The ELDAC Legal toolkit is a simple guide for health professionals and aged care workers to know the law and to manage common situations.