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Educators in aged care

Educators in aged care have a vital role in building the knowledge, skills and competencies of their fellow professionals in delivering palliative care. In addition, aged care professionals need to help patients, families and carers better understand death and dying, and end of life care.

Educators may be professional trainers, aged care staff providing in-house education or health professionals assisting with specific clinical training.

The following resources are intended to support educators in:

  • identifying and meeting their own professional development needs, and
  • accessing resources that can help facilitate the upskilling of staff / students / team members / colleagues in aged care and palliative care.
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    The need for palliative care education and training resources

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    Finding palliative care education resources

    As an educator, once you have a strong knowledge base regarding what you need to enable your students and/or colleagues to know and do in order to provide good palliative care and end of life care, the following resources can help you in your education efforts in particular.

    • The PaCE Aged Care directory helps you find learning and teaching resources to support the development of specific palliative care capabilities. 
    • The Educator Hub offered by the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative provides educator webinars and educator eLearning modules for you to use to optimise your teaching practice.
    • The palliAGED series of introductory modules on aged care and the Introduction Modules Manual can be used with staff who are new to aged care and/or palliative care as part of staff induction.
    • PalliBytes offers microlearning activities that may be useful for staff training purposes – different learning pathways are available.
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    Embedding advance care planning and palliative care

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    Reform changes

    Educators and trainers need to be aware of the policy changes affecting aged care which will come into effect in 2025 including the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, a human rights-based Aged Care Act and the Home Support Program. You can find information about these on the Aged Care Safety and Quality Commission’s Reform changes for workers web page.