Useful Links

Information about Palliative Care

• Australian Government information
• Palliative Care Australia
• Wingecarribee Community Health Centre, Bowral 

Additional Private Palliative Care Services

•  PACCS

My Aged Care – financial support and funding packages for people aged 65 or older

• My Aged Care 

Help with navigating My Aged Care

• Southern Highlands Community Hospice can arrange for a social worker to explain and navigate the process
• Dovida 
• Senior Helpers

Carer Support

• SHCH can organise palliative care-trained volunteers to visit and provide respite and social support.
• Carer Gateway

Grocery and Meal Delivery

• Coles home delivery 
• Lite n Easy 
• Meals on Wheels Southern Highlands
• Tender Loving Cuisine
• The Good Meal 
• Woolworths home delivery

Information about Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD)

• Go Gentle
• Dying with Dignity NSW 
• NSW Health

Grief and Bereavement

• SHCH can arrange grief and bereavement support : 0490 035 405
• Griefline
• NALAG
• National Centre for Childhood Grief
• Southern Highlands Bereavement Care Service 

Death Planning

• Advance Care planning
• End of Life doula services

Guides to arranging a funeral

• Cancer Council fact sheet 
• Funerals Australia 
• NSW Government site 

Funeral homes in the Wingecarribee Shire

• Beavan Funerals
• Lady Rose Funerals 
• Southern Highlands Funerals

Non-traditional and natural burials

• Bare
• Tender Funerals Illawarra
• Tender Funerals Canberra region 
• Walawaaniway 

How do I donate my body to science?

• NSW Health 
• University of Wollongong
• University of New South Wales
• University of Sydney 
• Western Sydney University