Speaker Series: Empowering Home-Based Palliative Care - Insights from the caring@home Project

Join Palliative Care Tasmania for an insightful presentation by Jane Stephens, a Clinical Nurse Consultant at caring@home—Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative, Queensland Health.

This session is designed for health professionals, palliative care workers, and community members who are passionate about supporting people who wish to receive end-of-life care at home. Jane Stephens will explore how caring@home resources can enhance clinical services, upskill health professionals, and help families and carers manage palliative care in a home setting.

caring@home develops, implements, and evaluates nationally consistent, practical, and evidence-based resources, along with providing associated education to enable quality end-of-life care at home. These resources support patients to be cared for in their place of choice. caring@home resources are free of charge and applicable Australia-wide. This initiative is a national palliative care project, funded by the Australian government.

Key Topics:

• Requirements to support people choosing to receive end-of-life care at home, and their families.
• How primary care health professionals can proactively plan and deliver care in the community using the Prompts for End-of-Life Planning (PELP) Framework.
• caring@home resources that help upskill health professionals to provide quality end-of-life care.
• caring@home resources that support health professionals in educating families and carers to manage care and symptoms at the end of life including giving subcutaneous medicines.
• Evidence that families can safely administer subcutaneous medicines to help manage end-of-life Symptoms.

About the Speaker:

Jane Stephens is a Clinical Nurse Consultant for the caring@home project, bringing nearly 20 years of experience in palliative care across research, inpatient, project, and community settings. She is dedicated to ensuring that people who wish to remain at home at the end of life receive quality care and that their families are well supported.

📅 Date: 18th March 2025
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM
📍 Location: Online

This Speaker Series will include a 45-minute presentation, followed by an interactive Q&A session to foster meaningful discussions.

Register now and be part of the conversation on empowering home-based palliative care.