For those experiencing Homelessness or living in Prison
People experiencing homelessness face multiple and complex challenges in life, and are more likely to have poorer health and die earlier compared to the general population. At the same time, the homeless population faces significant barriers to accessing services, including healthcare/palliative care when needed.
Resources
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Click here to download this report.
Useful Websites
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Caresearch brings together a range of resources and information to help the health care workforce find information on Homelessness.
Click here to visit the CareSearch website.
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PalliAGED provides resources that may be useful in planning and providing appropriate end-of-life care for homeless persons particularly co-ordinating care between health and community service providers
Click here to visit the PallAGED website
Australian Correctional/Justice Health Services increasingly need to provide palliative and end-of-life care to people in prisons. Over the last decade (2009-19), the proportion of older Australians in prisons (aged over 45 years) grew by more than 78%. Older people now account for nearly half (47%) of the prison population. Older people in prison are more likely to suffer from complex comorbidities associated with their lifestyle risk behaviours. (From UTS, Palliative Care in Prisons Project)
Resources
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Strengthening access to best evidence-based care for people with palliative care needs in Australian prisons: a national co-design and capacity building project (GO1995) .
The Palliative Care in Prisons Project aims to improve access to best evidence-based, culturally-safe, high quality palliative and end-of-life care for people in prisons, through the collaborative co-design of a new National Framework for the Provision of Palliative Care in Australian Prisons.
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This brief, provided by AHHA, highlights the significant gap in national data about all elements of palliative care need and provision in prisons, and describes how data collection could be improved through collaboratively designing palliative care data collection strategies, identifying nationally consistent data and health indicators about palliative care in prisons, prioritising new data items about palliative care for collection, maximising use of existing and novel data sources, and providing support for knowledge translation through development of a framework.
Click here to view the brief