Education Training and Resources

STEPS diagram

Our STEPS diagram provides a guide to support gradual development of palliative care skills and knowledge for your workforce.

Toward the End of-Life

This video provides Residential Aged Care staff with guidance around caring for a resident as they deteriorate and approach the end of their life and how to communicate these changes with their family. Click here for Toward the end-of-life YouTube video (5.25 minutes).

palliAGED

palliAGED is an online evidence-based guidance and knowledge resource about palliative care in aged care for use by health professionals and the aged care workforce. On this site you can access education, tools and links to apps that can be utilised in aged care.

End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC)

ELDAC provides information, guidance, and resources to health professionals and aged care workers to support palliative care and advanced care planning to improve the care of older Australians. Links are provided to a range of online resources.

Please contact Jennifer Gavin Project Coordinator, End of Life Directions for Aged Care for further information on ELDAC Expressions of Interest and Linkages Program – Service Development (eldac.com.au)

Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) In Aged Care

PEPA aims to enhance the capacity of health professionals to deliver a palliative care approach in aged care through workshops and Reverse PEPA Placements. A team of specialist palliative care and aged care educators provide palliative care education and training in aged care services.

Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program (PACOP)

PACOP is dedicated to improving the outcomes of Australians in aged care homes with a particular focus on those who are approaching the end of their life. Residential aged care is often a person’s final place of residence, with approximately 65,000 people in residential aged care homes dying each year.

The Palliative Care Education (PaCE) App

PaCE is a resource directory for educators and health and aged care providers. Relevant palliative care education resources can be accessed via your electronic device by using this app.

Victorian Aged Care Education and Training platform (VACET)

VACET is an online, free learning platform is for people who work in residential aged care  and would like to learn more about providing palliative care in an aged care setting. Modules completed count towards continuous professional development.

Competency in Health Assessment of the Older Person

This three-day workshop for registered nurses is conducted by La Trobe’s Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC). It includes hands-on skills in assessment, care planning and care delivery for older people.

Other resources
  • Aged Care Learning Information Solution (ALIS) has palliative care learning modules that aged care homes registered with The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission can access for their employees. Learning content helps aged care workers and providers to understand their obligations and supply safe, high-quality care. Online learning – Alis | Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.
  • This evidence centre, hosted by CareSearch, is a place to find learn about and work with palliative care evidence.
  • Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U)provides learning modules for nurses and care workers in palliative care.
  • Palliative care microlearning modules (PalliBytes) for the health and aged care workforce Home | ELLC (palliativecareeducation.com.au).