You’ve spent your best days at home, and you want to spend your last days there too.
We’re here to help you do that.
Our Master’s-qualified Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner leads a skilled end-of-life nursing team available 24/7. We can provide round-the-clock pain management and support to keep you as comfortable as possible in your own home, a place of familiarity, connection and belonging.
Dying well means something to each person. When we first meet you and your family, we ask what’s important to you and why it matters.
We encourage you to tell us about:
Your wishes are built into our care plans from the outset so that your end-of-life care honours you.
With the right clinical and practical support, many people with complex end-of-life care needs can stay at home until the end.
Led by our Master’s-qualified Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, our community palliative nursing team builds a care plan shaped around what comfort, respect and dignity mean to you.
Our support may include:
We work alongside you, your family and your wider treatment team, ensuring your care plan keeps pace with your changing needs.
Caring for someone you love at the end of life is one of the most meaningful things you’ll ever do — and one of the hardest. Most people find that they need some support.
Palliative care nurses bring expertise, experience and human connection to end-of-life care. We’re a calm and capable presence in the midst of a difficult situation, ensuring medication is taken correctly, reviewing clinical needs and helping you know what to expect next.
That frees you up to be the daughter, the husband or the friend, not the round-the-clock carer as well. It means you have more time for the things only you can give, like being together, talking, or watching a favourite movie.
There are three main ways to meet the costs of in-home end-of-life care.
Palliative care at home can be funded privately, through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), or through the Australian Government’s Support at Home program.
This is an Australian government program for older people who have less than 3 months to live, according to a medical assessment, and want to remain at home.
The end-of-life pathway:
To access it, a doctor or nurse practitioner needs to confirm your eligibility and complete the End-of-life Pathway form so that MyAgedCare can conduct a high-priority assessment. You don’t need to be an existing Support at Home participant (though the process is usually a little quicker if you are).
Focused Health Care is an approved Support at Home provider. We’ll gladly talk you through the process and help you get started quickly, because we know time matters.
If you’re not eligible for the official end-of-life pathway, you can still receive palliative care at home.
Some people fund this privately; others go through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
Not sure what applies to your family? Please contact us, and we’ll help you understand your options so you can decide what’s best in your situation.
