Today, the government ushers in new standards in the aged care sector with the Aged Care Quality Standards and Charter of Aged Care Rights both coming into force. Minister for aged care, Richard Colbeck, said the “major reform package” will ...
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“It is clear through my work as commissioner that older people are not always valued.” This is the opinion of Kay Patterson, Commonwealth Age Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian senator who had a stint as state minister for health and ...
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One hundred assaults over four-and-a-half years is not evidence of systemic issues among staff, according to aged care provider Japara’s chief executive, Mark Sudholz. Sudholz appeared uncomfortable at the royal commission Perth hearing on Tuesday, and by the end of his ...
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Home care package (HCP) numbers have been released by the government this year that show 129,000 are still waiting for help, up 1290 from the last report. However, the report shows that placements are trending in the right direction. As ...
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A nurse who suspected her father was being mistreated in an aged care home caught a care worker roughly handling him a number of times, including smothering him with a cloth. Aged care provider Japara failed to act when Noleen ...
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Maggots were found in the mouth of a respite patient at an aged care facility in Broome and the incident was reported anonymously to the aged care complaints commissioner. The Royal Commission’s Broome hearing was told that during the course of ...
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Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, and to better understand the disease research is vital. Finding willing people for trials and research can be difficult for academics and studies show that of terminated dementia clinical trials, ...
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Salutogenic design is a buzz phrase in the aged care space, but do we really know what it is? More commonly known as dementia-friendly design, it is a catch-all term easily described as design that makes life better for those with dementia. The ...
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