Experience of illness and the support of families and carers

Current projects in this area

• Learn Now; Live Well: An educational program for patients and caregivers living with life threatening illness (Dr Kirsten Auret, Professor Kate White, Nina Graham, Natalie D'Abrew, Geoff Duggan)

• Meeting the psychosocial needs of palliative care patients and their families: Palliative care nurses’ concerns (Professor Kate White, Associate Professor Sue Nikoletti, Kerry Cousins, Dr Moira O’Connor, Dr Colleen Fisher)

• Psychosocial and practical support needs of cancer patients and their families in Western Australia (Professor Kate White, Paul Katris, Dr Moira O’Connor, Dr Tim Threlfall, Natalie D'Abrew & Isabelle Ellis)

• The life experiences and risk behaviour modifications of women recovering from an acute cardiac event: a life history project (Associate Professor Murray Fisher, Dr Andrea Marshall, Professor Doug Elliott (University of Technology, Sydney), Associate Professor Robyn Gallagher (University of Technology, Sydney))

Academic staff with research interests in this area

Some but not all of the following academic staff have currently funded research projects. We invite you to find out more about their special research interests in this area.

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