End of Life in Residential Aged Care
This end of life care online course Australia provides learners with an understanding of the legal, ethical, and decision-making considerations involved in end-of-life care within residential aged care. It explores palliative care in residential aged care, advance care planning, substitute decision-making, voluntary assisted dying, and culturally inclusive approaches to end-of-life care.

Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Understand the role of law in end of life care in aged care Australia, including key legal principles governing medical treatment and decision-making.
- Explain capacity, consent, advance care planning, advance care directives, and substitute decision-making in residential aged care.
- Apply legal and ethical principles when making decisions about life-sustaining treatment, pain and symptom relief, urgent treatment, and non-beneficial treatment.
- Recognise the legal considerations surrounding voluntary assisted dying and end of life law for older people in Australia.
- Promote culturally safe and inclusive care by considering Torres Strait Islander end of life care and end of life care for diverse populations.
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Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Understand the role of law in end of life care in aged care Australia, including key legal principles governing medical treatment and decision-making.
- Explain capacity, consent, advance care planning, advance care directives, and substitute decision-making in residential aged care.
- Apply legal and ethical principles when making decisions about life-sustaining treatment, pain and symptom relief, urgent treatment, and non-beneficial treatment.
- Recognise the legal considerations surrounding voluntary assisted dying and end of life law for older people in Australia.
- Promote culturally safe and inclusive care by considering Torres Strait Islander end of life care and end of life care for diverse populations.
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Training Overview
- The role of law
- Capacity and consent to medical treatment
- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment
- Advance care planning and advance care directives
- Substitute decision-making for medical treatment
- Legal protection for administering pain and symptom relief
- Futile or non-beneficial treatment
- Urgent treatment for adults
- Managing conflict
- Voluntary assisted dying
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and end of life law
- Inclusive and of life decision-making for diverse populations
- Older people and end of life law
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Frequently asked questions
End of life care in aged care Australia focuses on comfort, dignity, choice and person-centred support, including appropriate treatment, symptom relief and respect for the older person’s wishes.
Palliative care in residential aged care helps manage pain and other symptoms while supporting comfort, dignity, quality of life and the individual’s end of life preferences.
Torres Strait Islander end of life care should be culturally safe and responsive, respecting the person’s culture, family, community, Country, values, beliefs and preferences.
End of life care for diverse populations should respect individual identity, culture, beliefs, communication needs and support networks while promoting dignity, equity, participation and choice.
End of life law for older people covers capacity, consent, advance care directives, substitute decision-making, treatment decisions, symptom relief and other legal issues affecting end of life care.
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