Aromatherapy has be shown to be beneficial for people in palliative care and their families. Learn more about how essential oils and massage can help people.
Australia’s largest nurses union has launched a campaign using mobile billboards in the Prime Minister, Treasurer and Health Minister’s electorates urging the government to mandate staff ratios – and implement other “urgently needed” aged care reforms – in the upcoming May budget.
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When a 90-year-old woman refused to be showered by her carer, her embarrassed family asked what they can do to get her bathed, and how they should tackle her emerging racist views.
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“It makes you feel, ‘Wow, I’ve done something great to help somebody.’” Palliative carer Donna Watling talks to HelloCare about the rewards she reaps from delivering care in a person’s final days.
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