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Poor wound management led to an aged care resident having maggots found in her heel and the aged care home tried to cover it up, the royal commission has heard. Annunziata Santoro lived in residential aged care at Assisi Aged ...

Before the nation’s eyes turned to the aged care sector with the royal commission, South Australia had its own reckoning. The Oakden scandal and subsequent inquiry seems to have set off a concerted effort to lift the standards of aged ...

‘Trust. Noun. The reliance on the integrity, justice, etc of a person, or on some quality or attribute of a thing; confidence.’ That is the first definition the Macquarie Dictionary has for the word trust. There are another 22 definitions or ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety continues this week in Darwin and will look at aspects of care in residential, home and flexible aged care as well as issues those living in rural and remote communities face. ...

Person-centred care was at the heart of the recent Perth hearing of the royal commission. Derived from the ideas of Carl Rodgers and Thomas Kitwood, person-centred care can be defined as care which is unique to the patient – their preferences ...

In the years 2017–18, just over 47 per cent of Australians had one or more chronic conditions. This is an increase of five per cent from the 2007–08 figures of just over 42 per cent. Chronic disease accounts for 37 ...

Last week, the royal commission into aged care quality and safety addressed dying in an aged care home. It is clear that a good death in an aged care home requires a sufficient number of competent and qualified staff. A ...

As of June this year there has been a recorded 75 flu outbreaks in NSW aged care facilities, with 86 residents requiring hospitalisation and 18 recorded deaths. And this week, an aged care facility in NSW was put into lockdown ...