Ensuring access to quality end of life care, including specialist palliative care, remains one of the major challenges to health systems and one we are focused on achieving.
Palliative care can assist with life-limiting illnesses, including:
- Dementia including Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia
- Advanced chronic lung disease
- Advanced heart disease, including heart failure
- End-stage kidney failure
- End-stage liver disease
- Cancer
- Degenerative neurological conditions
- Frailty, advanced age and/or multiple chronic medical conditions
Healthy Western Sydney
Healthy Western Sydney is a free service directory for community members and health professionals in Western Sydney offering information on palliative care, aged care and dementia services in Western Sydney.
Visit Healthy Western Sydney to access free health services.
Palliative Care Handbooks
As part of our End of Life and Palliative Care Program, we have developed two Western Sydney Palliative Care Handbooks which aim to improve your access to palliative care services and enhance your quality of life and that of your loved ones.
Other Resources and Links
Knowing where to seek available support from diagnosis through to the end-of-life period and beyond is important to ensure you receive appropriate care.
CareSearch provides evidence-based end of life and palliative care information and resources for health professionals, patients, carers and families to enable informed decision making and quality care across the life span and health care system.
My Aged Care is the national contact centre for Government funded aged care services. Health professionals can also use this portal for referral, assessment and services.
Services range from helping with daily tasks to end-of-life care, support for carers, respite care and access to residential aged care. Some services are available while the patient is living at home.
All Aged Care services can be accessed through the My Aged Care website or by calling 1800 200 422.
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning (ACP) involves a patient thinking about and communicating to others how they would like to be treated in the future if they have a condition where they can no longer speak for themselves. This may happen, for example, as a result of stroke, progressive dementia, or becoming unconscious from some form of accident or illness.
Undertaking ACP means that the future decisions about a person’s care are more likely to reflect their wishes. ACP identifies sensitive issues and clarifies the actions an individual would prefer in certain medical situations should they occur in the future. For many reasons these topics of discussion between family, carers and GPs are often avoided.
Progressing Health Now
Find out more about our other Services and Programs available for Western Sydney community members.
