Care & end of life
Care, support, and choices.
Palliative Care
Comfort, dignity, and quality of life.
Telling your family
It is your choice — and they will need time too.
What Dying Looks Like
For the person sitting beside them.
Dying at Home
How to make it possible.
Other end-of-life choices
Refusing treatment, stopping eating, palliative sedation.
End-of-Life Doulas
A companion for the hardest journey.
Organ and tissue donation — Australia
Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR) and DonateLife
When someone gives up on life
They may not be failing. They may be finishing.
Where to start: My Aged Care
The starting point for Australian Government aged care.
The aged care assessment (ACAT)
The gateway to higher-level care.
Help at home — the basics
Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP).
Support at Home
Help at home, and how to get it.
Residential aged care — Australia
Aged Care Quality Standards and what to expect
Costs and means testing
What aged care actually costs in Australia.
Your rights under the Aged Care Quality Standards
The Charter of Aged Care Rights — Australia
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission complaints
How to raise a complaint about aged care in Australia
When the care isn't right
Raising a concern about their care: what to do, who to call.
When it's time to stop driving — Australia
State driver licensing, medical conditions and family conversations
Are you a carer?
You may be, even if you've never used the word.
Carer Gateway
The main support service for unpaid carers in Australia.
Carer Payment and Carer Allowance
Financial help from Centrelink.
Respite — and actually taking it
Permission to rest.
Carer burnout
When caring for someone is breaking you — it's not a personal failing.
When you can't do this anymore
It is not a failure. It is a limit.
Parenting your parents
When the roles reverse and you become the decision-maker.
The diagnosis
The first weeks after the word lands.
Early stages — making the most of now
Life is still full. Live it.
The middle stages
When more help is needed.
The later stages
When the person you love is mostly inside themselves.
Behaviours and how to respond
When the person you love does things that don’t make sense.
Communication that helps
Less arguing. More meeting them where they are.
End of life with dementia
A long goodbye, then a quieter one.
After they’re gone
Grief after dementia is its own thing.
What VAD is — and isn't
Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia.
Who can access VAD
The eligibility criteria, in plain language.
How the process generally works
Multiple assessments. Time to change your mind.
The day itself
What people often choose, and how it goes.
Telling family and friends
On your timeline, in your words.
Where to start in each state
Care navigator services around Australia.
VAD: For families
When someone you love chooses voluntary assisted dying.
Grief after a VAD death
It is its own shape.
The NDIS — the basics
For people new to the scheme.
How NDIS plans work
Plans, budgets, and three ways to manage them.
Carers and the NDIS
You are part of the picture.
Palliative care and the NDIS
Two systems that have to work together.
Accessing the NDIS in late-stage illness
When time is short and need is high.
Changing the plan as needs change
When more support is suddenly needed.
NDIS plan reviews and appeals
When your plan doesn't match your needs.
When an NDIS participant dies
Notifying the NDIA and what happens to the plan
Your rights as a patient — Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights
The seven rights set by the ACSQHC
Speaking up in hospital
How to be heard when something isn't right.
Getting a second opinion
It's your right. Here's how to ask without burning bridges.
Advocacy organisations
People who will go in to bat for you.