LOOKING after loved ones and those looking after them have been themes raised during National Palliative Care Week. Before Shirley Richards’ husband died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), she benefited from services Ballarat Hospice Care was able to provide. One instance of this was when Shirley rang the service at 1.30am. She posed a question to one of the organisation’s nurses about her husband’s oxygen. “[The nurse said] ‘I’l…
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