If you're a patient or carer, please talk to your GP or visit Palliative Care Australia for more information.
About the Community Palliative Care Resources Box
The Community Palliative Care Resources Box is a free package that supports quality and timely palliative care for home-based patients.
Health professionals can use the resources to teach families and carers to help manage practical care and symptoms (including safely managing subcutaneous medicines)
at home.
The resources can be used in all Australian states and territories.
Managing subcutaneous medicines at home
Please note: The clinical process for carers managing subcutaneous medicines at home is the same across all caring@home resources. It is consensus-based best practice. Existing resources in standard caring@home packages for carers can still be used.
How to use it
The Community Palliative Care Resources Box is designed to be kept as a master copy. It should be stored centrally and relevant resources copied and given to each family or carer.
Extra copies of resources can be downloaded and printed as needed from the table below.
Order a box
Clinical services can order one resource box per site.
Note: The order form for all States and Territories (except Queensland) is managed through the Redcap secure database management system.
Resources
| We recommend printing resources in colour for families. | ||
|---|---|---|
Managing physical symptoms - see all resources | ||
The tip sheets provide written information and images about how to recognise and help manage end-of-life symptoms. | Help with anxiety | |
| Help with feeling sick and/or vomiting | ||
| Help with pain | ||
| Help with rattly breathing | ||
| Help with restlessness | ||
| Help with seizures | ||
| Help with shortness of breath | ||
| Help with troubling visions, sounds, thoughts | ||
| Common symptoms at end of life | ||
Recognising dying - see all resources | ||
The tip sheet provides written information and images about how to recognise when a person is getting closer to dying and when a person has died. | Knowing when a person is getting closer to dying/ Knowing when a person has died | |
Understanding infusion devices - see all resources | ||
These factsheets provide written information and images about why infusion devices are used, how they work and how families and carers can help check them | Information for carers: CADDTM-SOLIS and CADDTM-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps | |
| Information for carers: NIKI T34TM, T34TM and BODYGUARDTM T syringe pumps | ||
| Information for carers: SurefuserTM+ infusion device | ||
Providing practical care - see all resources | ||
These guides and videos explain how to provide practical care using a step-by-step approach. | How to care for the eyes/ how to care for the nose | |
| How to care for the mouth | ||
| How to change a pad | ||
| How to move and position a person in bed | ||
| How to wash a person | ||
| Managing subcutaneous medicines - see all resources | ||
| The information brochure introduces carers to how they can help manage breakthrough symptoms safely using subcutaneous medicines. | Information for carers: Helping to manage symptoms with medicines at home | |
| The factsheets provide written information and images about how to manage medicines at home. | Making sure there are enough medicines in the home | |
| Storing your palliative care medicines safely/ Disposing of your palliative care medicines safely | ||
| The medicines diary helps keep track of all medicines given by the carer to the person they are caring for. | Medicines diary | |
| The wall chart is used by the carer to help identify the correct medicine to be given for a breakthrough symptom. | Wall chart | |
The syringe labels are pre-printed and colour-coded for nine (9) palliative care medicines used to manage common terminal symptoms. Instructions for self-printing syringe labels are available. | Syringe labels | |
| The guides and videos explain how to help manage symptoms with medicines at home using a step-by-step approach. | How to help manage symptoms with medicines at home | |
| How to put medicine in the syringe | ||
| How to give medicine under the skin | ||
| How to insert a subcutaneous cannula | ||
| The training checklist is used to guide one-on-one training and to check carer competency. | Training checklist and carer/family post-training competency assessment | |
Using the caring@home resources
To learn more about how to use the caring@home resources, read our frequently asked questions.