Under the Commonwealth Government’s Comprehensive Palliative Care in Aged Care measure, funding has been allocated by the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to provide new and innovative approaches and expansion of existing models to improve palliative and end-of-life care coordination for older people living in residential aged care facilities.
Each Hospital and Health Service (with the exception of Children’s Health Queensland) has been allocated funding to improve access to specialist palliative care support in residential aged care facilities. A key aim of the project is to increase the capacity and capability of general practice and aged care staff to deliver care at the end of life.
