Improving palliative care - Toolkit for health professionals

From our Improving palliative care services for people with an intellectual disability project

What the Toolkit is   

The Toolkit provides guidance on improving palliative care for people with intellectual disability and has been developed to support the implementation of the Tailored model of palliative care for people with intellectual disability. By utilising the Toolkit in conjunction with the Tailored model of care, health professionals have the opportunity to transform the quality of palliative care for people with intellectual disability.  

Who should use the Toolkit  

The Toolkit is primarily designed for health professionals and service managers within generalist and specialist health services providing palliative care.

We recommend you view the Tailored model of care document first for context before using the Toolkit.

Download the free National Toolkit for health professionals (23MB)

Supporting toolkits   

 

Toolkit 3DN resources  

 For health professionals  

For people with intellectual disability and supporters 
These resources are available in both Plain English and Easy Read.   

    The model of care and supporting toolkits were developed using collective findings from a research project led by UNSW Sydney, in consultation with a Project Advisory Group comprising of people with intellectual disability, supporters of people with intellectual disability, and representatives from health, disability and advocacy services. Visit the project homepage to find out more about the project and its findings.