Associate professor Eddy Strivens gave witness testimony to the first hearing of the Royal Commission. As the president of the Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine, Strivens was called to give background on some issues facing the sector and, ...
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It is often debated whether life imitates art or vice versa. But a new multi-media initiative by the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is using the art of film to inform and project life’s realities. Moving pictures is a collaboration between NARI ...
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Bitcoin, last year’s craze for investors around the world, may have taken a hit this year but the technology behind it may be the real winner. Bitcoin was founded by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto when in 2008 he released the ...
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Some people would rather die than go into residential aged care facilities. This is according to UnitingCare Australia’s Claerwen Little, who told the commission about the findings from Uniting’s research into community perceptions of aged care. They found, among other ...
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Day five of the aged care royal commission saw a set of tense exchanges between counsel assisting Dr Timothy McEvoy and Leading Age Services Australia chief executive Sean Rooney. Rooney was taken to task by McEvoy over a number of ...
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The year after the Government stalled aged care funding there was a marked increase in findings of “substandard care that would impact on the health and wellbeing of a care recipient”. During the evidence of the secretary of the department ...
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Properly staffing aged care facilities with an adequate nursing skill mix and at least four hours and 18 minutes per-patient per-day care minimum would not cost the sector anything more than it currently outlays. That’s according to a report presented ...
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A new program, developed by Dementia Support Australia (DSA) and HammondCare, is aiming to create dementia experts among the provider’s workforce. As it stands, dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, contributing to 5.4 per cent of ...
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