Managing your relative or friend's symptoms

Alzheimer’s Australia

Several helpful symptom management brochures are available here.

Caresearch
Caresearch is an online resource designed to help those needing relevant and trustworthy information and resources about palliative care. The website has been funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing.

• Information on managing medicines

Cancer Council Victoria
Facing End of Life: A guide for people dying with cancer, their families and friends – includes information on symptoms.

Dementia Care Australia
Dementia Care Australia has information on the symptoms and stages of dementia

eviQ
eviQ Cancer Treatments Online is a website for health professionals. It is a point-of-care clinical information resource that provides health professionals with current evidence-based, peer-reviewed, best-practice cancer treatment protocols and information. It is useful for information on side effects and the management of chemotherapy.

Medicines Line
Medicines Line is a telephone service that provides information on prescription, over-the-counter and complementary (herbal, ‘natural’, vitamin and mineral) medicines. This information includes how a medicine works, side effects and interactions with other medications.

• You can call the Medicines line on 1300 MEDICINE (1300 633 424)

Palliative Care Australia

The following helpful symptom management brochures are available from Palliative Care Australia:

• About the process of dying
• About pain and pain management
• Facts about morphine and other opioid medicines in palliative care

Palliative Care Victoria (PCV)

The Palliative Care Victoria site has answers to commonly asked questions and a resource library containing a selection of useful resources about palliative care.