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‘Can actually cure patients’: Canberra team helps nation’s first oncologist

If someone in the Solomon Islands was diagnosed with cancer a decade ago, it was thought to be a death sentence.

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Living Fully at End of Life

Celebrating Palliative Care Week 2024 – Living fully at end-of-life Palliative care emphasises the importance of living meaningfully after a terminal diagnosis. We will all […]

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New care nurses for region

The State Government has carried out its election pledge to recruit more specialist palliative care nurses in regional South Australia.

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Teacher diagnosed with inoperable cancer salutes ‘unsung heroes’

For people like Peter Rasmussen, it’s the “unsung heroes” in the palliative care sector that will esnure his family are taken care of when he’s […]

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Join the Lachlan Palliative Care team for all matters of life and death

The Lachlan Palliative Care team are hosting an information day at the Cooke Park Pavilion on Friday, May 24 from 10am to 1pm. A number […]

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Any Ordinary Day

Gail O’Brien AO
I read journalist Leigh Sales’ book, Any Ordinary Day, in 2022. Through the book Sales recounts stories of people whose lives are […]

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Design and death: palliative care needs more creativity

At the Caritas Christi palliative care unit, “homeliness” is sprawling crayon lines and scribbled messages of “get well soon”, drawn by children in its arts […]

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‘Final wish come true’: A pie and a beer at the footy for one last time

After being diagnosed with spinal cancer in November last year, one man and has become the first palliative care patient to be granted one last […]

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‘So grateful to have this moment’: Dying nan’s final wish

There were tears all around as a beloved grandmother was able to play a special part in her first granddaughter’s wedding just four days before […]

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