Time to take closer look at palliative care
A CAMPAIGN is aiming to increase awareness around the profound work of our palliative care workers.
In conjunction with National Palliative Care Week, Palliative Care Victoria is celebrating workers with the “Palliative care, it’s more than you think” campaign.
Barwon Health palliative care clinical nurse consultant Melanie Davies’s role involves looking after people who have a life-limiting illness in their homes, helping manage symptoms and providing end-of-life care.
“This is something way more than a job, it gives so much back,” Ms Davies said
“I think, as a whole, people still have the perception palliative care equals only end-oflife care and people access it only in the last weeks of life. But it’s much more.”
In some cases, patients received palliative care for years, she said.
Ms Davies contributed a video to the campaign, sharing a story of using virtual reality to take a teenage brain cancer patient to Paris for her birthday.
PCV interim chief executive
Annie Revell said the aim of sharing these stories was to highlight the importance of palliative care in the community, while promoting the meaningful ways in which palliative care changed people’s lives.
National Palliative Care Week started on Sunday. All videos will be available to view on the PCV YouTube page, with select videos on the PCV Facebook page.