The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released its annual report – Health Expenditure Australia 2017–18 – and it shows that out-of-pocket costs for individual Australians has risen 32.6 per cent. The report also reveals a slight increase in overall health expenditure. ...
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Each year we are hearing more stories of large influenza outbreaks at aged care homes, often killing multiple people. This year is set to be a record-breaking one for influenza: the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System has reported that at ...
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The aged care industry is big business. It accounts for approximately one per cent of Australia’s GDP, with revenues of over $20 billion and approximately 5 per cent annual growth. For the near quarter of a million aged care workers, this ...
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Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) released the results of the world’s largest dementia study last week and revealed that most people think dementia is a normal part of ageing. The survey canvassed 70,000 people over 155 countries and highlighted a global ...
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Each week the residents at Sydney’s Twilight Aged Care home in Glades Bay look forward to singing and dancing like no one is watching when Moove & Groove silent discos hustle into town. The brainchild of founder and CEO Alison ...
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Dementia Australia launched its Action Week on Monday and wants the nation to focus on the discrimination of people with dementia. ‘Dementia doesn’t discriminate, do you?’ is the official theme this year, CEO Maree McCabe told a crowd at the ...
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After another horror week of revelations, aged care behemoth Bupa has taken a step towards repairing its reputation by meeting with prominent aged care advocate Stewart Johnston. Last week the ABC reported that more than half the nursing homes run ...
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Catherine Roche talked to the royal commission about her late husband, Michael Burge, who spent two years in aged care after he had a stroke aged 56. She described the difficulties she had navigating the space between the aged care system ...
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