Researchers from QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research and Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation have been awarded $450,000 from the Wicking Trust’s ‘Bring Death Back into Life’ Grant round for the 3-year project ‘Empowering older Australians to make informed end-of-life choices through connecting system silos.’
This project involves an exciting partnership between the two QUT research centres (with expertise in health law, particularly end of life choices, and health systems change) and peak bodies in the end-of-life care field: Go Gentle Australia, Advance Care Planning Australia, and Palliative Care Australia.
Chief investigators Professor Ben White, Dr Madeleine Archer, and Professor Lindy Willmott (Australian Centre for Health Law Research) and Drs Hannah Carter and Bridget Abell (Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation) will lead the project which aims to enhance older Australians’ understanding of their end of life choices.
The project will directly engage with older Australians to develop accessible information resources that will help older people to access and navigate new and existing information about their end-of-life choices.
The researchers would like to thank the J. O. & J. R. Wicking Trust as managed by Equity Trustees for their support of this research.
About the project
Empowering older Australians to make informed end-of-life choices through connecting system silos will engage directly with older Australians to understand their information needs about their end of life choices and barriers to accessing the information they need. This project will then use empirical research methods to develop and test accessible education resources that will enhance older Australians’ understanding of their end-of-life choices. The resources will support older Australians to navigate currently siloed end-of-life micro-systems (including advance care planning, palliative care, and voluntary assisted dying) and make informed and integrated end-of-life choices. Project partners will support the design and dissemination of the new resources.
