Community palliative care

Eastern Palliative Care is a partnership between the Order of Malta, Outer East Palliative Care Service Inc and St Vincent's Melbourne.

Eastern Palliative Care is a fully accredited organisation through The Australian Council on Health Care Standards (ACHS) ensuring quality, safety and performance at all levels of service delivery.

Eastern Palliative Care's services are provided in the local government areas of Boroondara, Manningham, Maroondah, Whitehorse, Monash, Knox and Yarra Ranges.

Eastern Palliative Care recognises that a person with a terminal / life–limiting illness may choose:

• To be cared for in the comfort of their own home for as long as possible

• To live as normally as possible

• To receive assistance from specialist palliative care nurses to manage symptoms

• To be in the continuing care of their own doctor

• To have the support of their family or caregivers

• To be supported through the decisions and personal adjustments which inevitably accompany serious illness (emotional, social, financial, psychological & spiritual)

Palliative care

• Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process

• Neither hastens nor postpones death

• Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms

• Integrates the physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of care

• Offers a support system to help people live as actively as possible until death

• Offers a support system to help the family cope during the person’s illness & their own bereavement

• Palliative care is provided to people of all ages who are dying.

While the majority of people requiring palliative care are in the older age groups, it is also needed by young adults, adolescents and children.

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