Patient resources
We produce useful resources to help inform patients and their families about their care and encourage involvement in making decision about treatment.
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Carer Gateway
Australia-wide network of Carer service providers. You can refer yourself by requesting a call back or call direct. Carer Gateway has online self-coaching and carer skills programs.
P: 1800 422 737
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Website | |
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CarerHelp Library
The CarerHelp resources are organised in different categories to help you find relevant information quickly.
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Fact sheet, Video, Website | |
| CarerHelp: Carer Support | Website | |
| Carerhelp: Caring for a dying person (PDF) | Fact sheet | |
| Carerhelp: Helplines for carers (PDF) | Fact sheet | |
| Carerhelp: Recognizing Dying (PDF) | Fact sheet | |
| Website | ||
| Carerhelp: Tips from carers (PDF) | Fact sheet | |
| Carerhelp: What to do immediately after death has occurred (PDF) | Fact sheet | |
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Caresearch
A page for GPs looking for palliative care resources
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Website | |
| CareSearch: Bereavement, Grief and Loss (video) | Video | |
| Caring @ Home Project | Website | |
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Caring for a dying person, bereavement & grief
Our Palliative Care team has compiled these resources to help people caring for someone who is at the end of their life, at home.
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Page | |
| Caring@Home: How to administer medication via a subcutaneous catheter (video) | Video | |
| Caring@Home: How to break a medication ampoule, draw up and label medication (video) | Video | |
| Caring@Home: Medicines and symptoms diary | Fact sheet | |
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Casarean section pain management
Patient information brochure
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Brochure, Fact sheet | |
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Catchment area for Alfred Health Continence Service
Map of catchment area
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32 KB | Fact sheet |
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Caulfield and Sandringham Hospital - Your Guide to Ordering Meals Online
Information for Caulfield and Sandringham patients about how to place an online order for their hospital food.
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Fact sheet, Flyer | |
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Caulfield Community Health Service - Access and Support Services
Find out more about the service and how you can access it.
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Brochure | |
| Fact sheet | ||
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Caulfield Hospital - Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Community Rehabilitation Service
Information for patients about the ABI Community Rehabilitation Service
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Booklet | |
| Caulfield Hospital - Aged Care: Ground Floor Dementia & Delirium Ward | Brochure | |
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Caulfield Hospital - Catheter Associated Meatal Pressure Injuries (CAMPI)
Information for patients and carers about a CAMPI, including how to prevent and manage them.
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Fact sheet | |
| Caulfield Hospital - CDAMS: Cognitive Decline & Memory Service | Brochure | |
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Caulfield Hospital - Diabetes Connecting Care Clinic
Diabetes Connecting Care Clinic (DCCC) is a service helping people with diabetes to access a broad and supportive clinical team
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Caulfield Hospital - Geriatrician Service
Find out about how our Geriatrician Service at Caulfield Hospital can help you.
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Brochure | |
| Caulfield Hospital - Inpatient Podiatry Service | Brochure | |
| Caulfield Hospital - Prosthetics Patient Information Handbook: For Lower Limb Amputees | Booklet | |
| Caulfield Hospital - Relaxed Breathing Exercise Instructions | Fact sheet | |
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Caulfield Hospital - Spinal Rehabilitation Service
This handout explains important information for patients who have spinal cord injury or damage and need inpatient rehabilitation in the spinal rehabilitation service at Caulfield Hospital.
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Fact sheet | |
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Caulfield Hospital - The Net-HealthData Mobile App
This information will tell you how to use the Net-HealthData Mobile App to help you manage your diabetes.
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| Centre for Clinical Interventions | Website | |
| Centrelink | ||
| Centrelink income tested fee for home care packages | Website | |
| Charter of Healthcare Rights - Understanding my rights | Brochure | |
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Children and Parents with Mental Illness
Resources and information to children, parents, family and friends and health professionals on how to respond to the needs of parents with mental illness
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Website | |
| Choice and Medication© portal | Website | |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) fact sheet | Fact sheet | |
| Chronic Pain Australia | Website | |
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Clinical trials (Easy Read)
Information about clinical trials.
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Booklet | |
| Co-design Conversation Starter Cards (for printing) | 739 KB | Tool |
| Co-design Conversation Starter Cards (PDF) | 525 KB | Tool |
| Co-designed Disability Awareness Training (PDF) | 2 MB | Booklet |
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Coeliac Australia
A not-for-profit association, comprising five state organisations supporting people with coeliac disease
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Website | |
| Commonwealth Home Support Program - Client Contribution | 114 KB | Fact sheet |
| Communication boards | 787 KB | Tool |
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Community brain disorders assessment and treatment service (CBDATS) - Austin Health
Community mental health services for people with an acquired brain injury and mental health difficulties.
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Website | |
| Community Health Nurse Brochure - CCHS | Brochure | |
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Complementary Therapies in Medicine
An international peer reviewed journal
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Website |