Education for personal support workers

At Alwyndor Aged Care – Support at Home program, staff who have undertaken a reverse PEPA placement experience have developed a training session for new support workers to discuss end-of- life-care in the community context. The session included topics such as recognising deterioration and end-of-life phase, common symptoms and care needs, dying at home and end-of-life care. The CareSearch factsheet ‘What is palliative care?” was provided to support workers

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