Defining a new model of care that supports people with palliative care needs to spend more time in their preferred place of care: a co-design project

  • Defining a new model of care that supports people with palliative care needs to spend more time in their preferred place of care: a co-design project

Project dates: 17/12/2019 - Ongoing

Timely access to appropriate information, care and support is critical to enabling people with palliative care needs to spend more days in their preferred place of care, which is typically their own home. Understanding the best way of providing responsive community based palliative care, and determining how available digital health technology may assist with this process, is an important first step in planning a new model of community palliative care.

This co-design project is designed to define the key elements required to deliver optimal 24-hour, seven day per week care to people with palliative care needs who wish to spend as many days as possible at home. It will achieve this by:

  • identifying and combining the available global knowledge
  • seeking the input of consumers, health professionals and identified digital health providers
  • collaboratively co-designing a new model of care.

Project outcomes:

  • The project findings will form the basis for collaboratively developing a new model of care with key stakeholders that integrates best available evidence and digital health technological solutions to enable people with palliative care needs to spend more days at home.

Project partners:


Funding / Grants

  • Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) – Palliative Care Clinical Academic Group (PC-CAG) under the Seed Grant Scheme, 2019

Chief Investigators