Dying well: Designing rural end-of-life services for chronic disease

该项目旨在了解现有的农村服务结构如何影响慢性病患者获得临终支持。慢性病占澳大利亚死亡人数的90%，但获得临终支持的机会有限，对农村地区的服务知之甚少。通过患者和利益相关者访谈、全国调查和服务地图收集的信息将用于生成新的循证框架和指南。这些产出将支持早期参与临终规划，已知可以提高生活质量和降低卫生系统成本，并为澳大利亚农村地区慢性病患者及其家庭提供公平的未来临终服务。

This project aims to understand how existing rural service structures impact access to end-of-life support in chronic conditions. Chronic diseases account for 90% of deaths in Australia, yet access to end-of-life support is limited and little is known about services in rural areas. Information gathered through patient and stakeholder interviews, national survey and service mapping will be used to generate a new evidence-based framework and guideline. These outputs will support early engagement with end-of-life planning, known to improve quality of life and reduce health system costs, and to inform development of equitable future end-of-life services for people and their families living with chronic conditions across rural Australia.