[from ACPA]
Advance Care Planning Australia, in partnership with Ageing Australia, has released a new resource to support retirement living and seniors housing operators in helping residents understand and plan for their future health care.
The Advance care planning in retirement villages and seniors housing implementation guide provides practical advice on raising resident awareness, understanding the different types of advance care planning documents, and setting clear boundaries around organisational roles. The guide also outlines considerations for emergencies, privacy, and staff training, along with a practical checklist that operators can use to review or strengthen their current practices.
Although retirement communities are not health care providers, they are uniquely placed to connect residents with reliable information and help them make informed choices. This new guide supports operators to do this safely, appropriately, and confidently.
Download the new Implementation guide
To ensure the Brisbane North Palliative Care Collaborative (BNPCC) is worthwhile and valuable for all members, we undertake annual evaluation. All members are invited to provide feedback on 9 questions.
More information is available on this handout.
Responses are open for eight weeks from Wednesday 19 November to Wednesday 14 January 2026.
Responses are deidentified and collated. Findings will be presented at the first BNPCC meeting in 2026, with recommendations for the group to consider.
The goal is to have at least 70% of members provide feedback. Responses can be given anonymously online, or in writing, or verbally- via any method preferred- including carrier pigeon!
Karuna's Carer Support Service has a couple of workshops coming up:
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Stress Management for Carers- 4 December
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Finding Balance & Connection During the Holidays- 17 December
(click the workshop title to see the flyer)
See the service flyer for more information on the Carer Support Services on offer.
[From ELDAC]
Several factors influence how people experience grief, such as age, past experiences with loss, and beliefs or spirituality. For older adults, grief may also relate to other losses like declining health, unfulfilled life plans, and a sense of diminishing levels of independence.
Providing grief and bereavement support that aligns with the spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial needs of older people, as outlined in the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, is essential. Information about loss and bereavement should also be provided to family members and carers.
This expert-led webinar will provide individuals working in aged care with an overview of how to support people experiencing grief and bereavement. A panel of experts will share their insights and practical tips on how to respond to cues to provide grief and bereavement support to individuals and their families in aged care.
Learning Objectives:
- How to respond to the grief and bereavement needs of individuals, their families and carers.
- Practice considerations when supporting a person living with dementia who is experiencing grief and bereavement.
- Outline strategies on how to build staff knowledge, confidence and skills in grief and bereavement in aged care.
12.30 pm – QLD
Thursday 4 December 2025
Register: https://loghic.eventsair.com/849952/713312/Site/Register
CPCRE is seeking applications from colleagues who would be interested in joining the CPCRE team as Palliative Care Project Officer (Identified), CPCRE.
Please see links below to the Careers and Seek websites’ for this position
Applications close Wednesday 26th November, 2025.
The Older Person Advocacy Network (OPAN) have released The National Aged Care Advocacy Program Presenting Issues- Report 5, which highlights presenting issues fielded by OPAN between July 2024 and June 2025.
Legal advice around Advance Care Planning and wills was highlighted as a common presenting issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
A case study (pg73) highlighted the need for earlier recognition, planning, and response of services and supports when people transition to end of life care.
Read the report here: https://opan.org.au/information/publications-and-reports/reports/
[From HammondCare]
We’re excited to announce that The Dementia Centre has united with The Palliative Centre and The Centre for Positive Ageing to become Hammond Innovations, HammondCare’s exciting new research and innovation initiative.
Now, with Hammond Innovations, we’re taking the next bold step, uniting these three highly-regarded entities into an integrated collective, so we can move faster from knowledge to impact, guided always by deep respect for the people we serve and upheld by the generosity of our supporters.
Harnessing focused research, creative design, groundbreaking technology and agile implementation, we put evidence into action through solutions that work in the real world.
Find out more: https://www.hammondinnovations.com.au/
[From Palliative Care Australia]
Palliative Care Australia in partnership with a diverse range of specialist health professionals, and parents and carers has developed a new Paediatric Palliative Care Referral Decision-Making Guideline Tool, to assist health professionals in identifying when to refer children to paediatric palliative care.
This initiative aligns with our shared commitment to improving equitable access to palliative care across Australia, particularly for children and families navigating complex health journeys. The tool is designed to support behavioural change in clinical practice and promote timely, compassionate referrals.
https://paediatricpalliativecare.org.au/resource/referral-to-paediatric-palliative-care-decision-making-guideline-tool-for-health-professionals/
[From Palliative Care Australia]
PCA is hosting a virtual workshop on the National Palliative Care Standards and the PaCSA tool
🗓 Wednesday 20 November 2025
🕑 2:00 PM AEDT
💻 Topic: Embedding the National Palliative Care Standards and PaCSA into Practice
👉 Register for the webinar here https://streamyard.com/watch/WvwNEnU38dH3
Proposed Schedule for 2025 (v8) (139 KB) (pdf)
November 2025