Learn about the caring@home project and how it's helping carers and families manage end of life care at home.
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[Text on screen] caring@home.
Symptom management for palliative patients.
National Palliative Care Project, funded by the Australian Government
>>Narrator (female voice over): Most Australians say they would like to be cared for and die at home if possible. But as clinicians know, many people in the last days of life have unwanted inpatient admissions because their symptoms cannot be adequately controlled at home. By preparing carers to manage breakthrough symptoms at home using a needleless technique, patients may avoid unwanted hospital admissions. Research indicates that carers can confidently, safely and competently give subcutaneous medicines with standardised support from health professionals, quality information and resources.
[Text on screen] caring@home.
Symptom management for palliative patients.
National Palliative Care Project, funded by the Australian Government
>>Narrator (female voice over): caring@home resources support health professionals to teach carers and families how to identify and optimally manage symptoms. Age common breakthrough symptoms that a home-based patient may experience using subcutaneous medicines. The best practice resources are applicable to all jurisdictions in Australia and include resources for carers, health professionals, and community service providers.
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caring@home resources support health professionals
Carers helping to manage breakthrough symptoms using subcutaneous medicines
Applicable all Australian jurisdictions
For carers, health professionals & community service providers
>>Narrator (female voice over): The caring@home package for carers contains a range of materials to meet the learning needs of all carers. Resources include a handbook, a diary, two Step-by-step guides, syringe labels, a fridge chart, training videos, a practice demonstration kit, a sharps container. The resources have also been translated into nine languages.
[Text on screen] Resources translated into nine languages
- Arabic
- Greek
- Italian
- Hindi
- Simple Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Punjabi
- Tagalog
- Vietnamese
>>Narrator (female voice over): Here's what carers have told us about the caring@home resources.
>>Carer 1 (female voice over): The resources were really very easy to understand and at my level. I could really recommend them.
[Text on screen] “The resources were really very easy to understand and at my level. I could really recommend them.”
>>Carer 2 (female voice over): I learned the skills required from the nurse and the training videos and this increased my confidence to look after my husband.
[Text on screen] “I learned the skills required from the nurse and the training videos and this increased my confidence to look after my husband.”
>>Carer 3 (male voice over): We knew when the pain hit we were able to do something to try and relieve it immediately, without having to sit waiting, powerless, for someone else to come back and do it. I believe it gave me the confidence to keep him at home to the very end.
[Text on screen] “We knew when the pain hit we were able to do something to try and relieve it immediately, without having to sit waiting, powerless, for someone else to come back and do it. I believe it gave me the confidence to keep him at home to the very end.”
>>Narrator (female voice over): Nurses value their caring@home resources because they support standardised practice across Australia. Make it easier to teach carers to give subcutaneous medicines contained a range of resources that meet learning needs of different people are simple to use and empower carers and families.
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Support standardised practice
Make it easier to teach carers
Meet learning needs of different people
Simple to use
Empower carers and families
>>Narrator (female voice over): caring@home has a range of educational resources for health professionals, including palliMEDS developed by NPS. MedicineWise is a prescribing app searchable by symptom or medicine, and includes an opioid conversion calculator.
[Text on screen] Educational resources for health professionals
>>Narrator (female voice over): The caring@home app. An easy to navigate offline app containing all caring@home resources.
[Text on screen] caring@home app
>>Narrator (female voice over): Two online education modules to inform registered nurses about the caring@home resources and how they can be used to teach carers.
[Text on screen] Online education modules endorsed by APNA and Australian College of Nursing
>>Narrator (female voice over): caring@home has produced policy documents to support clinical services to introduce caring@home resources. The guidelines for the handling of palliative care medicines in community services and an example policy and procedure document can be used by community service providers to inform the development of policies, procedures, and protocols tailored to their own requirements.
>>Narrator (female voice over): caring@home resources have been used widely in all jurisdictions in Australia by specialist palliative care services, community nursing and domiciliary services, hospitals, discharging patients who choose to die at home. And general practitioners. All resources can be downloaded from the project website.
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Specialist palliative care services
Community nursing and domiciliary services
Hospital discharging patients into care of community services
General practitioners
>>Narrator (female voice over): All resources can be downloaded from the project website, caringathomeproject.com.au
[Text on screen] Download the resources caringathomeproject.com.au
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