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End of Life Directions for Aged Care ELDAC

ELDAC is a national specialist palliative care and advance care planning advisory service. ELDAC provides information, guidance, and resources to health professionals and aged care workers to support palliative care and advance care planning to improve the care of older Australians. The project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care and is delivered by a consortium of three universities and four national peak bodies from aged care, palliative care, and primary care.

The ELDAC website is free to access and offers a range of information and practical tools to support clinicians and care providers to plan and provide quality palliative and end life care. Various printed resource packs can also be ordered via the ELDAC website free of charge. The ELDAC project also offers curated collection of resources and tools, as Toolkits, to support service level processes around palliative and end of life care. There are also several interactive digital tools designed to help aged care workers such as a Home Care App, a Self-Care Room, and a palliative care Digital Dashboard, to name a few. Aged care services wishing to work even more closely with the project can participate in the ELDAC Service Development Program and have a dedicated ELDAC facilitator help build their service level capability around end of life and palliative care.

ELDAC works in partnership with and builds on the work and resources developed by other National Palliative Care projects including, but not limited to, palliAGED, CareSearch, PEPA, PACOP, Advance Care Planning Australia.

Vision and mission

To enable aged care services to deliver effective care at the end of life.

ELDAC builds end of life and palliative caregiving capability at the care provider, service, and sector level.

How ELDAC can help

ELDAC can help by providing you resources and tools to build your skills, knowledge, and confidence in providing care at the end of life. ELDAC can also support aged care services to build their end of life and palliative care processes via their unique set of toolkits, digital technology tools, and an array of quality resources.

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Last reviewed: April 2025

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End of Life Law - Voluntary Assisted Dying -FAQs

Frequently asked questions about voluntary assisted dying

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Primary Care - ELDAC

The Primary Care Toolkit provides an evidenced-based resource for people working in primary care to support palliative care and advance care planning. The toolkit contains links to clinical tools and resources; education, training and quality improvement strategies for palliative care and advance care planning; information on how to access and develop local HealthPathways; and resources to improve coordination and cooperation between services and providers.

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ELDAC - Residential Aged Care

The Residential Aged Care Toolkit provides information and guidance to support palliative care and advance care planning for residents and their families. Within each section of the toolkit you will find information, how to guides, tools and forms, and carer resources.

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End of Life Law - ELDAC

The Legal Toolkit provides practical information about the law at end of life for the aged care sector. It contains useful resources on end of life legal issues commonly encountered in aged care to help you to know the law and to support your practice.

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Clinical Care - Home Care

This section of the Home Care Toolkit delivers information on how to provide advance care planning and palliative care for people living at home and their families.

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Primary Care - HealthPathways

HealthPathways is a web-based information portal, designed to be used at the point of care, primarily for general practitioners and other clinicians. In some regions access to HealthPathways may also be available to hospital specialists, nurses, allied health and other health professionals.

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End of Life Law - Legal Protection for Administering Pain and Symptom Relief

Providing medication for pain and symptom relief (palliative medication) is important to ease suffering and improve the quality of life of a person with a life-limiting illness. However, sometimes uncertainty can arise for those giving palliative medication about whether it is lawful, particularly when a person is close to death.

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End of Life Law - Advance Care Directives Factsheet

An Advance Care Directive can be a useful tool for people to communicate instructions about future health care decisions. This factsheet explains the key legal principles on Advance Care Directives.

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End of Life Law - Mythbusters Futile or non-beneficial treatment

Myth-Busters: Futile or Non-Beneficial Treatment

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Our Diversity - Our Products

Older Australians are from many different backgrounds, so each person will express their identity in different ways. Older diverse Australians often face barriers in accessing palliative care services. Organisations and services and those who work in them need to consider and respond to individual need, especially at the end of life.

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