Compassionate conversations: navigating end of life and palliative care in aged care – panel session
Elissa Campbell is a geriatrician and palliative care physician, working in acute geriatric medicine in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia.
She is President of Palliative Care WA and Chair of the ANZ Society of Palliative Medicine’s SIG in Palliative Care for Older People. She was a member of the WA Ministerial Expert Panel on Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) and WA’s VAD Implementation Leadership Team.
Dr Campbell co-founded the online community of practice, Palliverse. As head of department of Geriatric Medicine at her tertiary hospital, she led the introduction of an ED Geriatrician Service, Frailty Rapid Access Clinic, Neurosurgery-geriatrics service, Early-Supported-Discharge for Delirium Service and Geriatric Oncology clinic and was involved in renovation of the 14-bed Delirium Care Unit.
She is currently leading a pilot service for nurse-led palliative care needs assessment and advance care planning for hospital inpatients being newly discharged to residential aged care.
In 2022, Dr Campbell undertook the inaugural WA Health Churchill Fellowship, to “explore models of palliative care for people with dementia”, visiting seven countries in three continents.
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