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End of life and palliative care services can help maintain quality of life by providing relief to pain symptoms as well as emotional, mental and spiritual support...
Genetic services provide support, information and guidance to patients and families about genetics and genetic testing. Find out more about accessing these services...
Palliative care - personal stories...
Find out how you can access palliative care for medical treatment, emotional support and practical help to maintain your quality of life for as long as your condition allows...
There are culturally sensitive palliative care services that will help you and your family...
Advance care plan personal stories...
Palliative care helps improve the quality of life for a person with a life-limiting illness, as well as the lives of their family, friends and carers, through advice, information, referral and support...
If you have preferences about how and where you want to die, it is important that you tell your carers, family, friends and healthcare professionals...
It is the funeral directors job to help with many of the legal responsibilities, including the death certificate...
It is important to acknowledge that you will respond in your own way to the news that you are dying. Respect your need to question, your need for silence and your need to talk...