Specialist Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning Advisory Services

Overview

This Grant Opportunity is to continue and enhance the delivery of Specialist Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning Advisory Services, using innovative models, for aged care providers and GPs providing health care for recipients of aged care services from 2020-21 to 2022-23.The objectives of the Specialist Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning Advisory Services are to:*provide specialist palliative care and advance care planning advice to aged care providers and GPs providing health care for recipients of aged care services;*improve linkages between aged care services and palliative care services;*improve the palliative care skills and advance care planning expertise of aged care service staff and GPs providing health care for recipients of aged care services; and*improve the quality of care for aged care recipients, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and shorten hospital stays.The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are:*the empowerment of GPs, aged care providers and other healthcare workers with knowledge of palliative care and advance care planning relevant to their situation;*the creation of links between primary care, aged care and palliative care; and*the provision of advice about palliative care, advance care planning and advance care directive resources, processes, legislation and accountabilities in the state or territory in which the aged care provider, GP or other healthcare worker is located.