Julianne whyte

Julianne provided evidence to the Senate Inquiry into Palliative Care in Australia and the work of the Foundation is referenced in the final Senate document. Julianne is passionate about the way health care professionals HCP respond to the psychological needs of people living with an advanced chronic illness, who may be living their last year or days of life and the concerns of their family member, loved ones and care givers.

Margie is passionate about empowering business owners to make informed decisions. To do that they need reliable and accurate financial information sourced from integral accounting systems and processes. Margie has provided small business management accounting and bookkeeping services for over 23 years and is the owner of Country Cloud Accounting. Margie has worked in public practice accounting for over six years seeing first hand the importance of open communication and collaboration between bookkeepers, accountants, and clients.

These relationships are pivotal to long term business success. Margie has a Bachelor of Business Accounting , Training and Office Management accreditations and is experienced in building and construction, trades, agriculture, retail, wholesale, health services, hospitality, service industries and day to day small business operations.

Margie is an active committee member with Business Women Albury Wodonga and strongly advocates the Mentor program supporting women in business. Margie enjoys playing the euphonium with the Wodonga Brass Band , gardening, and exploring the great Australian landscape with her husband Andy, and sons Sheldon and Cameron. Kris has a particular interest in end of life and bereavement care, aged care, carer support and chronic disease management.

Her professional work in these areas focuses on the colourful ways in which people live their lives, manage their losses and face the challenges of their often complex situations. Tegan graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work Honours from Edith Cowan University and has worked across a number of social work practice settings including trauma counselling, child protection, sessional university lecturing and health care.

Tegan also recently completed post-graduate study in palliative care through Flinders University. Tegan has a passion for palliative care and works closely with the specialist consult team to ensure good outcomes for palliative care patients and families in the acute care setting. Tegan is also committed to promoting the need for timely and appropriate social work intervention and anticipatory psychosocial care throughout the palliative care trajectory.

Beverley graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work Honours degree from the University of Sydney and has practiced as a clinical social worker in metropolitan, regional and rural settings in loss, grief, bereavement and trauma for the past 17 years.

I am trialling an approach which focuses on the psychological and existential needs of people who are dying. It is a mix of narrative therapy, dignity psychotherapy, cognitive grief therapy, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapy.

It has a focus on what people contribute to the world in life, right up until their death, even in and out of an unconscious state. It looks at death in terms of the opportunity it provides to learn about yourself and others, and having conversations about that rather than allowing nothing to exist in that space. We are running a national trial, with Charles Sturt University and integratedliving, looking at the difference that an effective evidence-based intervention and referral process can make for administrators, care givers and people with a terminal diagnosis.

I see so much post-traumatic stress in people with who have witnessed horrible deaths, or what appears to be an expected death, but for the family it can still be traumatic. For many there are regrets, hurts, and unspoken things; things that people wished they had done more of, or said more often.

And on a daily basis I hear very sad stories. I had one guy in his 40s who came in crying because he felt he had let his wife down. She had cancer and was dying and he had sat with her for days.

A nurse encouraged him to go home to have a shower, and she died while he was away. He said if someone had told him he could lay on the bed with her and give her a hug, he would have. He had wanted to have a lock of her hair. He wanted to be holding her hand when she died. We are looking at the last 13 months of life, not just the last three months or so. You have to get it right now.

We look at coping and resilience; the meaning that people give their loss. Four years after Dad died, she is still angry. I have to laugh, but at the same time, it makes me sad.

If you have any stories or ideas to share with us, send us an email. Home » Palliative Matters » Carers » 10 minutes with Julianne Whyte Print this page 10 minutes with Julianne Whyte 29 January By Heather Wiseman Julianne Whyte says more needs to be done to address the psychological impact of a terminal diagnosis.

What professional emotional support do you think should be a routine part of palliative care? You focus on people who are bereaved as well? What is the Amaranth Foundation doing, in order to change that? What drives you to make a difference in this area?

Inspiring thank you for addressing the mental health needs of the dyibg and their carers - Willie Wilson. I came from SEPC Vic where we had counsllors, music therapist, pastoral care, social workers, volunteers who specialised in legacy creation activities I hope that your initiative makes a world of difference, because quality of Palliative care should not depend on your postcode.

Thank you for your personal story and how that has led you to new dimensions in the work of palliative care. It happens very often I think, the realising that there is more to caring than addressing just the clinical issues. I am keen to learn more and this would be my preferred area of volunteer work when and if I am able.

Thank you so much Julianne for giving this important part of wholistic palliative care a voice.