You Can't Ask That: Mythbusting Community-based Palliative Care

This study will promote awareness of community-based palliative care among consumers and their carers. It involves: identifying the questions, concerns, illusions, misrepresentations, and falsehoods that consumers and carers have about community-based palliative care; addressing these via an audio-video resource; and determining the perceived impact of this resource. Pending the findings, the audio-video resource will then be shared across and beyond the South Western Sydney Local Health District to promote awareness of community-based palliative care, and relatedly, death literacy.

Researchers: Associate Professor Ann Dadich

Funding: South Western Sydney Local Health District

Period: March 2018 – December 2021

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The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.