professional carers

6 Articles

Centralise communication for compassionate care. Create a single source of truth for patient wishes, family updates, and care plans, ensuring everyone is aligned during end-of-life care.

Offer tangible carer support. The Evaheld Legacy Vault helps carers organise essential information and create respite through shared access, reducing their mental load.

Caring for someone who is dying can be emotionally exhausting. This guide focuses on supporting carers with self-care strategies, emotional support, and practical organisation so responsibilities feel manageable and wellbeing is protected.

A practical guide to managing daily dementia care with confidence. Covers routines, personal care, nutrition, behaviour changes, and how to keep health information, care preferences, and important details organised so support can be given consistently and with less stress.

Maintaining a patient’s dignity and autonomy is the cornerstone of compassionate end-of-life care. This article provides practical approaches for care teams, underpinned by documented preferences. It covers respecting cultural and spiritual rituals, honouring personal routines (like favourite music or reading), managing symptoms in line with patient priorities (e.g., preferring alertness over total sedation), and facilitating meaningful final conversations. When these personal values are recorded and accessible, they guide daily care decisions, big and small. This ensures the patient remains an active individual in their care, fostering a sense of control and peace during a vulnerable time.

Person-centred aged care places the individual — not the system — at the heart of care decisions. This guide explores practical tools that support dignity, independence, and wellbeing by aligning care with a person’s values, preferences, and life history. Discover how thoughtful planning and the right digital tools can improve communication, continuity of care, and overall quality of life for older Australians.