Managing Grief + Loss

This section includes resources about grief, loss and bereavement, and support services available to help prepare, process and manage these experiences.

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CarerHelp website (currently de-funded)

CarerHelp website (currently de-funded)
CarerHelp was an Australian website for carers who need information and resources to help them feel informed and prepared for caring for someone who is seriously ill. It also included information to support carers when death is a possibility and for when death is near. CarerHelp provided information for everyone including carers who are Aboriginal…
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Providing Effective Care at Home and at the End of Life – a PDF Handbook for Patients with a Terminal Brain Tumour and their Family Caregivers (UCSF).

Providing Effective Care at Home and at the End of Life – a PDF Handbook for Patients with a Terminal Brain Tumour and their Family Caregivers (UCSF).
The goal of this handbook is to provide an overview of what a patient and their family and caregivers may expect when facing a progressive, life-threatening brain tumour. This handbook is specifically focused on providing effective care at home and at the end of life. The handbook is produced by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and…
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Talking to Kids about Cancer – When Cancer Wont Go Away (Cancer Council NSW)

Talking to Kids about Cancer – When Cancer Wont Go Away (Cancer Council NSW)
The Cancer Council have produced a guide as a starting point for talking to your children about cancer, in age-appropriate ways, at all stages of cancer. This particular chapter deals specifically with talking to children when someone they love has cancer that has come back or spread, or if you need to prepare them for the death of a parent or loved…
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Podcast: The thing about advanced cancer (Cancer Council NSW)

Podcast: The thing about advanced cancer (Cancer Council NSW)
"The thing about advanced cancer" is an audio podcast series produced by Cancer Council NSW. Each 20-30 minute episode covers a different topic related to advanced cancer - some are more suited for patients, others for carers. Topics include: Treatment options for advanced cancer, the role of hope and purpose in advanced cancer, living…
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Facing End of Life (Cancer Council PDF Guide)

Facing End of Life (Cancer Council PDF Guide)
Cancer Council have a guide for people dying with cancer, their family and friends. The chapters in outline how you might feel knowing you are dying, what might happen physically, and how you can prepare for death. There is also information for carers, family and friends. This may be the first time you have read about end-of-life matters and it may…
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Cancer Mind Care website

Cancer Mind Care website
Cancer Mind Care is a self-help online platform launched in 2021. It provides Australia’s first ‘one-stop-shop’ for tailored mental health support for people with cancer, their carers, clinicians and for First Nations peoples. It includes resources on scanxiety, fatigue, fear of recurrence, sleep problems, grief, stress management and more.
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We’re working hard on adding more topics with meaningful information to this life stage, so there might not be as much content as you’d hope to find. If you’d like to see more of the content you’ve searched, please write to us at BT-online@unimelb.edu.au.

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