title: Primary palliative care - facing twin challenges.
abstract: As Australia's population ages, three things are inevitable: more people will develop chronic illnesses; more will grow very ill and more will die. Blueprints for the future suggest an increasingly important role for general practitioners and primary healthcare in palliative care.
authors: Centre for Primary Healthcare Innovation, The University of Queensland, Australia. g.mitchell@uq.edu.au
authors: Geoffrey K
authors: GK
authors: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D001315:Australia; D002908:Chronic Disease; D058006:General Practice; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care; D011320:Primary Health Care