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Adelaide's highly regarded Palliative Care in the Home service has been named Calvary Health Care’s Team of the Year in national excellence awards celebrating staff and volunteers who exemplify the spirit of Calvary in their roles.
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As South Australia becomes the fourth state in the country to legalise euthanasia, two Catholic archbishops have spoken of the experience of losing their mothers to reaffirm the Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life.
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Australia has only half the number of palliative care doctors needed to provide good quality care for chronically and terminally ill patients despite increasing demand, a study by Australian Catholic University (ACU) has found.
As one of only a handful of palliative care nurse practitioners in South Australia, Kevin Hardy is well qualified to talk about dying. He spoke to JENNY BRINKWORTH ahead of appearing before the SA Parliament’s Joint Committee on End of Life Choices.
When Mary Bolitho was entering the final months of her life, she was adamant about spending as much of the time she had left in the familiar surroundings of her city home.
Launching a home-based palliative care service in the next 12 months is just one of the exciting initiatives on the very long ‘to do’ list for Calvary North Adelaide Hospital’s new CEO Sharon Kendall.
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