Coordinate the right support
Good quality healthcare is essential for a healthy end of life, but it won’t walk the dog for you.
That’s what we need friends, family and other social connections for.
Offer and Provide Help
I was overwhelmed with offers of meals but what I really needed was help to get to my appointments. The HELP App allowed me to ask for exactly what I needed, at a time that worked for me.
Build your own end-of-life support network with our free HELP App
Stories from our app users
When someone offered to help out, I felt bad saying no; about sending them away thinking they had nothing to offer. So, I wrote a list of all the things that would be useful for me. You know: gardening, bins, shopping. That made them feel involved. It was important to them to help us. They loved Murray and wanted to do something for him
– JANE
People will only ask you three times [if you need a hand]. Then they’ll stop asking you.
– PARTICIPANT
I was guilty of [refusing to accept help]. I was newly married and wanted to cope with everything. I thought I should be able to cope with it, and was worried what people would think of me.
– PARTICIPANT
Now, when I think of how much time I spent vacuuming and cleaning so the house was clean for the palliative care nurses, I regret it. I could have spent more time with Mick. I don’t want other people to do what I did
– AMY
Social and practical support
Improving health outcomes with our app
- Improves social connectedness
- Provides access to expert ‘tips’ that supports and builds confidence and quality of care.
- Improves well-being outcomes
- Helps identify specific care needs and creates timely support
- Helps guide personal networks to know the best way to help out
- Reduces stress with simple coordination and communication tools
- Helps patients transfer out of hospital and maintain a high level of personal support
- Avoid carer burnout and isolation
- Increased willingness to care for others and positive social change
- Helps address changes to personal circumstances
Support tools
HELP App Features
Thank you to our PARTNERS
Program Partners
State government and philanthropic funds support HELP’s development and operation.
Project Partners
HELP partners with sectors, organisations, services, communities and individuals. We identify and mobilise contributions for providing support to Australians nearing the end of their lives – and improve their care outcomes.
Support tools
Learn more about the HELP App today
If you’d like further information on how to use the HELP App or how to implement it into service delivery in your workplace, join one of our free webinars and connect with the HELP team. You can also access our resource library to find the right information to assist you to get the most out of the HELP App in various care settings.