What is palliative care?

Palliative care is care provided for people living with, and dying from an eventually fatal condition and for whom the primary goal is quality of life.

Palliative care is the relatively new name for the specialized way of providing supportive care for any person with a life-threatening illness approaching the end of life.  It is available for everyone: young and old, those with cancer or any other terminal diagnosis, people of any ethnic or cultural background, wherever they live - in the city or in the country.

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supporting your region

Nothern Service
  • Riverland
  • Gawler & Districts
  • Northern Metro Adelaide
  • Elizabeth Vale
  • Port Pirie
  • Barossa & Districts
  • Lower North (Clare)
  • Yorke Peninsula

Central Service
  • Adelaide Hills (Mount Barker)
  • Port Augusta
  • Eyre Peninsula
  • Central Metro Adelaide
  • Murray Mallee

Southern Service
  • Mount Gambier
  • South Coast
  • Southern Metro Adelaide
  • Kangaroo Island
  • Naracoorte

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Nothern Service

Central Service

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Children’s Palliative Services

Residential Aged Care

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Advance Care Planning

25 Jan 2012

The legislation around Advance Care Planning varies in every state and territory.

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Palliative Care Awards 2011

25 Jan 2012

The Palliative Care Council South Australia was thrilled to have received twenty seven nominations across six categories for the 2011 Palliative Care Awards. 

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