A NSW aged care resident who recently battled Covid has just celebrated her 105th birthday. May Harrison, who is thought to be Australia’s oldest Covid survivor, hit the milestone birthday surrounded by family and friends. “I was very sick and ...
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The case for an individual approach to preventing falls: podcast
Older people in aged care homes are twice as likely to have a fall than people living in the community. Frances Batchelor from the National Ageing Research Institute is pushing for a more individualised approach to assessing risks and preventing ...
More »Boosting life quality through intergenerational programs
An aged care home is bringing together older people and children to increase social connectivity and reduce loneliness. Chief executive officer of Rural Care Australia, Darren Midgley, currently operates Chaffey Aged Care, a 100-bed residential facility in northwest Victoria. He ...
More »Get busy living or get busy dying: opinion
Why are so many aged care professionals pushing for older people to have a “good death”? But nota good life? What is this fascination with dying well after 3 years of living poorly as a frail olderperson, now well exposed ...
More »HSU takes aged care caterer to federal court
A major aged care union has taken an aged care catering service to the federal court for not paying penalty rates to staff on weekends. The Health Services Union commenced “precedent-setting” legal action on Saturday to prevent aged care operator, Catering Industries, from engaging catering staff under the hospitality ...
More »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 ...
More »Poor eyesight linked to ‘devastating’ cognitive misdiagnosis
New research has found that older people with poor eyesight might be mistakenly diagnosed with cognitive impairment. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects one in seven people over the age of 50 and is the leading cause of blindness. During cognitive ...
More »Experts forecast disputes in aged care as voluntary assisted dying is legalised
Experts have said aged care providers will face considerable challenges when voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws come into force in 2023. The bill was recently passed in the NSW parliament after decades of debate and will allow those who are ...
More »What aged care can expect under a Labor government
Aged care reform was a major centrepiece of Labor’s federal election campaign, and is expected to be a key priority of new prime minister Anthony Albanese. Following his victory, the new leader asserted his pledge to the sector, telling his ...
More »Workforce shortage solution is staring right at us: opinion
With Australia’s unemployment rate at its lowest level for more than 40 years, bringing the prospect of rising wages, higher inflation and climbing interest rates with it, the solution to the workforce shortage problem is staring right at all of ...
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