CarerHelp: Preparing Australian families for end-of-life care.
Caring for someone at the end of life is an important role and carers need information and support to help them navigate this challenging time. CarerHelp (www.carerhelp.com.au) is a website filled with information, resources, and videos to prepare you to care for your family member, a friend or relative.
The website will help you work out where you are in the caring journey and offer you resources, videos and factsheets accordingly. There are many useful tips from carers and health professionals that will help you to provide quality end of life care, find the right services, and look after your own wellbeing.
CarerHelp has a huge range of topics from self-care, preparing finances, symptom management, recognising dying, caring for the dying person, through to funeral planning and managing grief. There are links to other trusted sources and services, lists of helplines, and tips from other families who have been through similar experiences. There are also a range of resources in other languages and resources tailored for First Nations families.
We encourage you to visit the website, read a little, read a lot, it’s up to you. The website is the work of a National Palliative Care Project Grant, and lead by St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
