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Banksia Palliative Care Service provides client and family centred care, which is active and supporti

25/09/2025

🌼Would you like to know about palliative care and how Banksia supports your community?

We love meeting with community groups who are interested in learning more about Banksia, palliative care and end-of-life. We're passionate about starting meaningful conversations about these topics and warmly invite community groups to connect with us for open and honest conversations.

We can offer you a presentation about what we do, or we can facilitate a 'death café' style open conversation about death with your group, all at no cost.

For more information visit our website https://banksiapalliative.com.au/community-conversations/ or call us on 9455 0822 to discuss what you'd like to learn about what we do.

24/09/2025

How blessed were we today to receive a visit from the CWA South Morang Night Owls!

This volunteer group have been supporting Bankia with donations for years. This time they came armed with woollen knitted scarves, knitted teddies and tissue packs. Recently they donated $500 in cash from their own fundraising efforts. Banksia will spend that money on paying for the medicine expenses of those of our clients who need the help.

Thank you Lynn, Iva, Hellen and Erika (pictured with Michelle Wood Banksia's CEO) for gracing us with your good humour and generous spirits today. You are the best! 🌟

23/09/2025

We provide community palliative care anywhere that you are.

This means that whether you're living at home, at a friend's home, in an aged care facility, in your car, Banksia Palliative Care will come to you and provide the care and support you need, whatever the environment. We meet you and the special people in your life and work alongside all of you to provide tailored care to your needs and situation. All of our services are free.

Contact us if know someone who is living with a life-limiting illness in the Banyule, Whittlesea and Nillumbik council areas. Our expert care will help improve the quality of their life and those caring for them.

17/09/2025

🌿Looking for a moment to pause, reset and refresh?

From Tuesday 7 October, join Banksia Palliative Care's free weekly online mindfulness and relaxation sessions - perfect for our clients, their carers and families to find a moment of calm at home.

When: Every Tuesday, 2.30-3pm (from 7 October)
What to expect: Light, guided meditation featuring breathing exercises and body awareness techniques you can use anytime.
How to join: No need to book - A zoom link will appear on our Banksia website closer to the date: https://banksiapalliative.com.au/mindfulness-and-relaxation-sessions-online/

These sessions are practical, inclusive, and easy to follow, offering you a gentle way to pause, reset, reconnect and find a little calm.

16/09/2025

To all our Health Care Professionals!

Join us at Banksia for a night of paella and Generalist Advanced Shared Palliative Care (GASP). This is a GP Education event for anyone working in health who is interested in Palliative Care Sedation.

Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) is an important but often misunderstood intervention. It is the careful use of medication to ease severe suffering in people with life-limiting illness - not a side effect, and not a way of hastening death. In Victoria, GPs provide most end-of-life medical care, supported by community palliative care services like Banksia. Our new GASP program strengthens collaboration with GPs and Palliative Medicine Specialists to ensure the best care in complex situations - PST being one of them.

Presented by Banksia experts, this event is accredited for CPD points.

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 6.30-9pm
Cost: Free. Bookings are essential.

Dinner by Paella Pan is included, so please specify dietary requirements within your booking. Each booking is limited to one person.

To find out more and to book visit: https://banksiapalliative.com.au/gp-palliative-care.../

15/09/2025

🌿 Dementia Action Week | 15–21 September 🌿

This week we join communities across Australia in recognising Dementia Action Week. It’s a time to raise awareness, challenge stigma, and support people living with dementia and those who care for them.

At Banksia, we know the difference that compassion, understanding, and inclusive care can make. Together, we can help create communities where people living with dementia feel respected, supported, and valued. 💜

For resources and more information, visit: https://www.dementia.org.au/get-involved/dementia-action-week
For more about what we do, visit: https://banksiapalliative.com.au/living-with-dementia/

12/09/2025

So, our death café from a couple of weeks ago was such a success that we've decided to run another!

✨Save this date: Thursday 6 November ✨
Time: 6.30 - 8pm
Venue: Mill Park Library - because they are such lovely hosts
394 Plenty Rd, Mill Park, Victoria

The format will be the same as last: a casual conversation about our experience and feelings about death shared in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. If you're interested about death and expanding the ways we speak about this topic, feel free to join us. This event is open to anyone.

It's a free event but we'd like you to book ahead so we know that there will be a group: https://events.humanitix.com/death-cafe-with-banksia-november-2025

For more information please visit our website: https://banksiapalliative.com.au/death-cafe/

10/09/2025

Banksia is excited to launch our new seasonal newsletter, starting this spring!

Stay up to date with what’s new at Banksia, the services and support we’re offering our clients and carers, and the ways we’re making a difference in our community.

Subscribing is easy - simply visit our website and click the orange “Subscribe” button on the right-hand side of your screen, or follow this link: https://banksiapalliative.com.au/ -987510536

We look forward to keeping in touch and sharing our stories with you over the coming seasons.

09/09/2025

Did you know? At Banksia, we offer free 50-minute massage sessions to the main carer of each of our clients.

It’s our way of giving our carers some well-deserved respite – time to relax, recharge, and care for themselves.

✨ Sessions are held at our Heidelberg office with our experienced massage therapists.

✨ If you’re a carer and it’s hard for you to get away from home, chat with our staff – as we may be able to get someone into your home to give you that time off you need for yourself.

Because you give so much, we know you deserve a little care too.

To book yourself a time with our massage therapist call Banksia on 9455 0822 or speak to our staff on their next visit.

03/09/2025

To all our Health Care Professionals!
Join us at Banksia for a night of paella and Generalist Advanced Shared Palliative Care (GASP). This is a GP Education event for anyone working in health who is interested in Palliative Care Sedation.

Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) is an important but often misunderstood intervention. It is the careful use of medication to ease severe suffering in people with life-limiting illness - not a side effect, and not a way of hastening death. In Victoria, GPs provide most end-of-life medical care, supported by community palliative care services like Banksia. Our new GASP program strengthens collaboration with GPs and Palliative Medicine Specialists to ensure the best care in complex situations - PST being one of them.

Presented by Banksia experts, this event is accredited for CPD points.

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 6.30-9pm
Cost: Free. Bookings are essential.

Dinner by Paella Pan is included, so please specify dietary requirements within your booking. Each booking is limited to one person.

To find out more and to book visit: https://banksiapalliative.com.au/gp-palliative-care-education-seminar-and-paella-night/

02/09/2025

Our Death Café on last Friday was a success! Here's a photo of the impressive Mill Park library lit up at night - our venue for the event.

We had 21 people attend! The conversation about death flowed!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Banksia's first death café. We're grateful to those who contributed their experience and stories and those who listened in on the conversation. We want to make conversations about death a normal part of our everyday interactions. Events like these are a good way to start.

Keep your eyes out for the next time we run an event like this or go to our website to subscribe to our newsletter (orange button on the right hand side): https://banksiapalliative.com.au/

01/09/2025

🌼Can you feel that spring is in the air!
Coming up this Friday 5th September is our Bereavement Social Group meetup at Heide Kitchen Café. It's a perfect time to get outdoors to be in supportive company.

This group is open to all family and friends of former Banksia Palliative Care clients with the purpose of connecting people with others who share the lived experience of caring for a loved one who has died. It’s an opportunity for conversation and reflection about life and loss.

The group meets at Heide Kitchen (in the outdoor undercover area) on the grounds of Heide Gallery in Bulleen for a coffee and an opportunity to talk. Those who are interested can take a walk together through the gardens at the end of the meetup.

These events are facilitated by a Banksia social worker and volunteer.

This group meets on the first Friday of each month, so if you can't meet for this one, keep it in mind for next month.

To learn more or register your attendance, please visit:
👉 https://banksiapalliative.com.au/bereavement-social-group/

Location on map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UpX9EDJNNco7x3xi8

Address

472 Lower Heidelberg Road
Melbourne, VIC
3084

Website

http://www.banksiapalliative.com.au/

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