- Understanding your relative or friend's illness
- Having time for yourself in the day
- Managing your relative or friend's symptoms
- Help with financial, legal and work issues
- Providing personal care for your relative or friend
- Dealing with your feelings and worries
- Who to contact when you're concerned about your friend or relative
- Looking after your own health
- Equipment to help care for your relative or friend
- Beliefs or spiritual concerns
- Talking with your relative or friend about their illness
- Practical help in the home
- What to expect in the future when caring for a friend or relative
- Getting a break from caring overnight
- Young carers
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers
- LGBTIQ+ community
Talking with your relative or friend about their illness
(Helpful resources and links)
Dementia Australia
Help sheets
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.
Dementia Care International
Dementia Care Australia has information on how to communicate with someone who can’t speak
Dying Matters
Dying Matters is a coalition based in the UK which aims to change public knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours towards dying, death and bereavement.
Starting the conversation when someone close to you is dying
Good life, good death, good grief
Good life, good death, good grief is a Scottish based alliance that promote community involvement and raise public awareness in ways of dealing with death, dying and bereavement.
- What to say if someone you know is dying – brochure
- Starting end of life care conversations with people affected by dementia – brochure
Palliative Care Australia
The following helpful brochure is available from Palliative Care Australia: What can I say, what can I do; when someone I know is living with a terminal condition.
Last Modified: Monday, 10 August 2020