A new project led by Edith Cowan University is investigating how CCTV could be used to improve the safety and wellbeing of residents in aged care homes. A survey and interviews will canvas opinion from the public as well as residential ...
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Delivering whole-person-centred care through an understanding of faith
Meaningful Ageing Australia has launched a new resource to assist the aged care workforce better deliver whole-person-centred care. The Multifaith Practices resource is an Australian edition of a Canadian publication called Multi-faith Practices: Guidelines for Caregivers which was published in 2014 ...
More »Federal budget is the time to stop talking about aged care and start fixing it
Australia’s aged-care system is in a state of a disaster. The aged care royal commission’s final report, released last month, is just the latest in a decades-long string of depressing reports and inquiries exposing horrific abuse, neglect, and systemic failures. ...
More »Union, peaks ramp up calls for aged care overhaul ahead of Budget
In a fortnight, the government will reveal its Budget response to the royal commission’s final report, and worker and consumer representatives are this week ramping up their calls for government to act now. It’s not too much The Australian Nursing ...
More »When too much is barely enough: opinion
‘When too much sport is barely enough’ is a much loved satirical credo made famous by the Australian sports comedians Roy Slaven and HG Nelson as they send up obsessed Australian sports fanatics. Something eerily similar seems applicable to the eight ...
More »Vaccine rollout in disarray, aged care left in the dark
The nation's COVID-19 vaccination rollout has become more complicated over the past week after questions were raised about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. After reports of a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots were raised by ...
More »Preventable hospital admissions from aged care cost $312 million a year: AMA
The peak body for doctors has said that Australia could be saving $21 billion by eliminating avoidable hospital admissions from aged care homes and older people in the community. “The potentially preventable hospital admissions – just one aspect of the ...
More »Consumer peaks unite, propose industry reform
Twelve aged care consumer peak organisations have come together and issued a joint plan for reform of the aged care sector. Led by the Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia, the groups issued a response to the royal commission's final ...
More »CCTV to finally be trialled in SA homes
In an Australian first, the South Australian Government has announced that it will trial CCTV in aged care homes in a bid to stop potential abuse in the system. SA Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Stephen Wade, declared that a ...
More »Does the health department deserve a second chance to fix aged care?
Nearly a month on from the release of the final report from the aged care royal commission we are still largely in the dark on how the government might seek to change the sector going forward. Professor Jo Ibrahim, the ...
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