People at end of life require a lot of support from family or friends. Caring for someone towards the end of their life is a very important role.
Vision and mission
CarerHelp aims to prepare family members or friends to provide care to someone with a terminal illness. The CarerHelp website enables carers through:
- access to high quality information and resources that support them in the carer role
- nowledge of the services available to carers
- an understanding of what to expect when someone is dying
- a greater sense of control over their role
- better communication with the health care team, family and friends
- information and resources around maintaining wellbeing
How CarerHelp can help
CarerHelp provides access to useful and trustworthy information, tools, articles and videos. These resources can help carers of people who are towards the end of life understand what to expect, improve communication, understand the health system, and support their own wellbeing.
The useful templates can help carers keep information organized and plan ahead. The videos contain useful practical information from health professionals and demonstrate care skills.
Programs, apps and tools
- CarerHelp Forms free templates to help you manage medicines, contacts, and appointments
- CarerHelp Modules free learning modules on different caring topics
- Carer Check free tool to help guide you to useful information
- Checklist for moving forward a checklist to help you following bereavement
- Rural Information Card for rural families to alert metropolitan health providers
