Tag: Palliative Care

Pope Leo XIV’s World Day of the Sick message calls Christians to draw near to those who suffer, bearing their pain with compassion. It comes at a time when high-quality palliative and end-of-life care is more important than ever.

After listening to the community, the University of Technology Sydney has dropped its plans to discontinue postgraduate palliative care courses.

Palliative care supports people who are dying to live comfortably and make the most of every remaining day, often in their own surroundings and with their loved ones by their side.

University of Technology Sydney is one of two universities offering postgrad courses in palliative care. To help plug a massive hole in its budget, it plans to drop them.

The number of Australians aged over 85 is projected to more than double over the next two decades, to more than one million. This presents a challenge for our society if we truly mean to provide dignity and excellent care for all. 

As France's lawmakers push their Catholic prime minister to put the voting on the "end of life" bill back to the agenda, François Bayrou proposed to split the controversial bill into two separate issues: palliative care and "active assistance in dying."

Is it possible for a terminally ill person to flourish? New research from the Australian Catholic University says yes—and with the right therapeutic interventions, there may be aspects of the good life that are uniquely meaningful as it draws to a close.

Townsville Bishop Timothy Harris has called the removal of vital pain-relieving medications from the Australian market over the past year a “disgrace” and questioned the seriousness of governments in providing real options for end-of-life care.

If euthanasia advocates are so worried about end-of-life choice, why aren’t they demanding that palliative medicines—some of which are now more than 20 times the cost they were a year ago—be made available to patients, asks Monica Doumit.

National palliative care week provides an important opportunity to raise awareness about palliative care, in particular the top quality physical and spiritual care offered by Catholic providers all over Australia, writes Brigid Meney.

Liberal MLC Susan Carter is urging people to petition for the restoration of palliative care funding to the levels promised by the former Coalition government

Questions raised by Catholic MLC Susan Carter have revealed concerning plans for the co-delivery of palliative care and Voluntary Assisted Dying in NSW health districts when VAD comes online on 28 November.