Aged care advocate reflects on loss and grief: podcast

Sarah Holland-Batt's latest book The Jaguar contains an intimate collection of poems about the decline of her father and the impact grief has had on her.

"It's a reckoning with the changes that someone can go through over the course of living with Parkinson's Disease," she explains.

"The book is fundamentally about my relationship with my dad."

Aged Care Insite spoke with Holland-Batt, a professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, about how she reflects on her loss in prose.

As an outspoken advocate for aged care reform, the conversation also touches on her testimony to the Royal Commission in March 2021 and the issue of voluntary assisted dying.

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