Your 'Highway to Help'

Welcome to the ACPC ‘Highway to Help’ for residential aged care staff and managers caring for residents living with a life limiting illness, showing signs of deterioration or at end of life.

Whether you’re seeking quality assessment, monitoring or communication tools, external support services, educational materials, resources and bereavement support for residents, their families and friends, or self-care tips, this website will direct you there.

Communicating effectively

Assessment tools

Managing symptoms

External supports in-hours and after-hours

Goals of care and advance care planning

Dementia

Diverse populations

End of life law and voluntary assisted dying

Self-care

Resources for residents, families and friends

Grief and bereavement

Education

Management supports

This website is an outcome of the 2023/24 collaborative ‘Comprehensive Palliative Care in Aged Care’ Project between Ballarat Hospice Care, Central Highlands Rural Health, Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team (Grampians Health) and Grampians Region Palliative Care Consortium. Sponsors: Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, and Victorian Department of Health; Comprehensive Palliative Care in Aged Care Measure (2018).

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.