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

You can download or print the resources from the list below.

For Aboriginal Medical Services

We have limited stocks of Palliative Care Clinic Boxes available for Aboriginal Medical Services.

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

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
Managing physical symptoms - tip sheets

Help with feeling sick in the gut V2

Help with feeling sick in the gut V2

Help with fitting V2

Help with fitting V2

Help with fluid in the gut (new)

Help with fluid in the gut (new)

Help with pain V2

Help with pain V2

Help with rattly breathing V2

Help with rattly breathing V2

Help with restlessness V2

Help with restlessness V2

Help with short of breath V2

Help with short of breath V2

Help with stress V2

Help with stress V2

Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts V2

Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts V2

Common symptoms experienced at end of life V2

Common symptoms experienced at end of life V2
Recognising dying

Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed V2

Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed V2
NEW Understanding infusion devices

About infusion pumps (CADDTM-SOLIS and CADDTM-SOLIS VIP)

About infusion pumps (CADDTM-SOLIS and CADDTM-SOLIS VIP)

About syringe pumps (NIKI T34TM, T34TM and BODYGUARDTM T)

About syringe pumps (NIKI T34TM, T34TM and BODYGUARDTM T)

About infusion devices (SurefuserTM+)

About infusion devices (SurefuserTM+)

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.