If you're a patient or carer, please talk to your GP or visit Palliative Care Australia for more information.

Health professionals

Learn more about providing palliative care for First Nations people by reading Managing palliative care symptoms: A guide for health professionals.

Read the Example policy and procedures document to help develop your own policies and procedure framework to use caring@home resources. You can learn more about using caring@home resources by reading:

Using the Palliative Care Clinic Box

The Palliative Care Clinic Box contains free downloadable resources.

They're for health professionals to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families helping to provide end-of-life care at home.

You can print the resources from the list below.

For Aboriginal Medical Services

We have some printed stocks of our Palliative Care Clinic Boxes for Aboriginal Medical Services.

Please email caringathome@health.qld.gov.au to order a box.

Printing resources

Tailored for Aboriginal families Tailored for Torres Strait Islander families

Information brochure for families - Helping to manage symptoms at home

Information brochure for families - Helping to manage symptoms at home

Training checklist and carer/family post-training competency assessment

Syringe labels
Tip sheets

Help with feeling sick in the gut

Help with feeling sick in the gut

Help with fitting

Help with fitting

Help with pain

Help with pain

Help with rattly breathing

Help with rattly breathing

Help with restlessness

Help with restlessness

Help with short of breath

Help with short of breath

Help with stress

Help with stress

Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts

Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts

Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed

Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed

Information flyer for families - Common symptoms experienced at end of life.

Information flyer for families - Common symptoms experienced at end of life.

Step-by-step guides

Help manage symptoms at home

Help manage symptoms at home

Put the medicine in the syringe

Put the medicine in the syringe

Give the medicine under the skin

Give the medicine under the skin
Medicines book and wall chart

Medicines book

Medicines book

Medicines book self-print label template

Medicines book self-print label template

Medicines book self-print instructions

Medicines book self-print instructions

Wall chart

Wall chart
Training videos - see all videos (including Indigenous language voiceover videos)

Video 1 - Caring for your loved one at home

Video 2 - Help manage symptoms at home

Video 3 - How to put medicine in a syringe

Video 4 - How to give medicine under the skin

Using the caring@home resources

To learn more about how to use the caring@home resources, read our frequently asked questions.