News and Resources - CarerHelp

The CarerHelp team recently met with Margaret McKenzie from the Cancer Council. In this blog, Marg shares her thoughts on the CarerHelp website and how she uses it to help her in her supportive care role.

The CarerHelp team look towards the next three years and aim to address the needs of rural carers, increase the focus on grief and bereavement, and provide more direct support to carers.

Sometimes, it can be difficult to know what goes into building a website, let alone one that deals with providing care and caring for someone in the last months and days of their life.

Dr. Andrea Grindrod, Director of La Trobe Universty's Public Health Palliative Care Unit, discusses how HELP App can help carers and helath professionals.

Beth Doggett is a specialist cancer navigator with Rare Cancers Australia. In this blog she tells us how she uses the CarerHelp website with her patients and families. The CarerHelp team caught up with Beth at the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia Congress and asked her about her role at Rare Cancers Australia.

 Dr, Kristina Thomas, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Palliative Care, visited Yarning circle for better understanding and improved recourses for First Nations people. 

 Dr, Prof. Liz Reymond, Director, caring@home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families project. 

 Dr, Kristina Thomas, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Palliative Care, summarises CarerHelp's resources and achievements for 2022. 

Dr. Aileen Collier, Assiociate Professor Palliative Care & Aged Care Nursing Division of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Northern Adelaide Local Health Network & Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying Flinders University, discusses older aged carers, wellbeing and the importance of diverse support. 

Yumi Naito, Casual Academic at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, discusses how cultural influences impact advanced care planning and care in Japan and the absence of individual decision making by the patient.