Palliative Care in Aged Care

The courses in palliative care in aged care at Flinders have been developed to provide practitioners from backgrounds in gerontology, aged care or palliative care with education in the specialty area of palliative care in aged care. The teaching and learning focuses primarily on helping you change your practice in light of new insights and evidence.

Topic assignments may be related to work place issues and problems. Palliative and Supportive Services at Flinders University provides distance courses that give professionals from any health discipline the opportunity to deepen the knowledge base upon which their practice is grounded.

The courses provide:

• leading edge content for students across the world
• an interdisciplinary team approach, appreciating diverse professional perspectives
• relevance to your immediate and potential future professional needs
• enjoyable, successful learning through well-structured topics
• a flexible delivery mode to match your hectic work and life schedules.

Palliative care in aged care is growing at local and national levels within multiple health care settings including hospitals, nursing homes, community care and hospices. These courses are designed to provide professional development, planning and delivery of palliative care services to older people in a range of aged care settings. Graduates can find careers in areas ranging from rural and remote, acute, community, and aged care settings to palliative care units and hospice care.

Potential employers include:

• hospitals
• hospices
• nursing homes
• community care.