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About us

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.

How ELDAC can help

ELDAC can help build your skills, knowledge and confidence in end of life caregiving. The ELDAC website is free to access and offers a range of information and practical tools to support clinicians, care providers, and services to plan and provide quality palliative care and end life care.

These include:

  • Toolkits

  • Digital Tools

  • Service development program

  • Printed resources

There are eight ELDAC Toolkits. These are a curated collection of resources that support services 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.

Please visit the Our products page to find out more.

Aged care services wishing to work even more closely with the project can participate in the ELDAC Linkages Program and have a dedicated ELDAC facilitator help build their service level capability around end of life care and palliative care.

Various printed resource packs can also be ordered via the ELDAC website free of charge.

The project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

The project is delivered by a consortium of three universities and four senior sector organisations.

QUT is a co-lead and administrative lead for the ELDAC project. Both the Centre for Research Excellence in End of Life Care (CRE-ELC) and the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) at QUT are involved in the ELDAC project. QUT also leads the service and sector development part of ELDAC. This entails determining existing specialist palliative care and aged care partnerships, developing sustainable linkage strategies for aged care and palliative care incorporating partnerships and networks, and providing service-to-service advisory services. QUT has also developed the Linkages (formerly known as Working Together) Toolkit and the End of Life Law Toolkit.

Flinders University is a co-lead for the ELDAC project. CareSearch (including palliAGED) is involved in the ELDAC Project by providing quality, evidence-based resources in palliative care. Flinders has leadership of the technology and innovation portfolio of ELDAC products, the ELDAC website (Knowledge Hub) and ELDAC marketing initiatives. Flinders has also developed the Allied Health Toolkit.

UTS is a co-lead for the ELDAC project. UTS leads the development of the ELDAC Toolkits. They have developed the Residential Aged Care Toolkit, Home Care Toolkit and Dementia Toolkit.

PCA is involved in the policy and advisory services activities of the ELDAC project.

ACCPA is involved in the policy and advisory services activities of the ELDAC project.

AHHA has developed the Primary Care Toolkit. AHHA is also involved in the policy and advisory services activities of the ELDAC project.

CHA is involved in the policy and advisory services activities of the ELDAC project.