National Palliative Care Week (NPCW), held from 24 – 30 May 2023, is Australia’s largest annual awareness raising initiative held increase understanding of the many benefits of palliative care.
“Palliative Care… It’s more than you think”. Theme for National Palliative Care Week 2022 is It’s your right.
Palliative care is person and family-centred care provided for a person with an active, progressive, advanced disease, who has little or no prospect of cure and who is expected to die, and for whom the primary goal is to optimise the quality of life.
For help and information ask your:
- Doctor
- Aboriginal Health Worker
- Hospital Liaison Officer
- Nurse
Get involved this May by:
- Joining a twitter conversation
- Getting a conversation going in the community
- Volunteering with the foundation
- Donating
For more information, visit: https://palliativecare.org.au/