Dr Care Solutions
Your Care | Your Support | Your Way
We assist clients find the right care, support & accommodation solution to meet their needs, wants & budget, in the quickest possible time.
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Icon Funeral Services
Icon Funeral Services is dedicated to providing simple, dignified and affordable funeral service options to the wider community whilst embracing various religion, non religion and cultural beliefs and customs.
Gather My Crew
Gather My Crew’s community-based volunteering allows people to 'lend a hand' in their local area without having to commit to permanent shifts or specific activities.
ELDAC
ELDAC provides information, guidance, and resources to health professionals and aged care workers to support palliative care and advance care planning to improve the care of older Australians.
The Groundswell Project
The Groundswell Project works with individuals, organisations and communities to improve how people in Australia die, care and grieve.
Caresearch
Palliative care evidence and tools for health professionals and information about death and dying for the whole community.
The Living Urn
A Green burial. The Living Urn is Australia's first and leading bio urn & planting system designed to grow a beautiful, enduring memory tree, plant, or flowers with cremated remains.
Lifeline
We are a national charity providing all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
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Advance Care Planning Australia
Advance Care planning is thinking about and documenting your preferences for your future health care.
ACPA offer resources to help build your plan.
https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au
Advance Care Directive materials in each state (Australia) here
Widowed Parents
Better understand the grieving process, hear other widowed parents share their experiences, and access helpful resources.
White Ribbon Australia
White Ribbon Australia is part of a global social movement working to eliminate gendered violence.
Links to written resources
Advance care planning support in NSW:
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/patients/acp/Publications/acd-form-info-book.pdf
Advice if you’re upset by the news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13865002
Black justice - Massacres of Indigenous people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians#cite_note-Newcastlemap-2
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/introduction.php
Black justice - The Appin massacre:
https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/appin_massacre
Carer and cancer https://www.carerandcancer.com/,
Children – Helping Your Child Deal with Death
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/death.html
Children - How to talk to children about terrorist attacks
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-40011787
Covid-19 mythbusting, counteracting false reporting in social media:
ELDAC – End of Life Directions for Aged Care
ELDAC – the legal toolkit
Life Prolonging treatments in Australia
https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/for-family-friends-carers/what-are-life-prolonging-treatments
Funerals Sunshine Coast and Regions Qld – not for profit and community led (via Facebook)
Green burial – NSW Public Health Regulations on burying a body without a coffin
https://www1.health.nsw.gov.au/pds/ActivePDSDocuments/PD2013_048.pdf
Grief Link
https://grieflink.org.au/ provides workshops and information for people dealing with grief
Lifeline - Urgent help with grief
https://www.lifeline.org.au/
Mapping black deaths in the USA after George Floyd - the number of police killings has trended slightly upward from 2013 to 2019
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21276004/4-charts-anger-police-killing-george-floyd-protests
Missing Persons in Australia, National Missing Persons Coordination Centre
Supporting those who are left behind
Missing persons, Missing Persons Advocacy Network
Missing Persons, NSW govt
Family and Friends of Missing Persons Unit.
The Daniel Morcombe Foundation
Palliative care – NSW govt.
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/palliativecare/Pages/default.aspx
Substitute decision makers
The mathematics of predicting the course of the coronavirus:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-mathematics-of-predicting-the-course-of-the-coronavirus/