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 ...

Good oral health is an intrinsic part of overall wellbeing for people of all ages, but is particularly important for Australia’s elderly population. Poor oral health can impact quality of life and contribute to life-threatening conditions such as malnutrition or ...

What if changes to policies, procedures and culture in long-term aged care could reduce unnecessary antibiotics and improve consumer care and antimicrobial stewardship in the future? Many consumers of long-term care are prescribed antimicrobials that are for unconfirmed infections. Urinary ...

In the aged care environment ensuring residents take all their medication every time is a constant challenge. The World Health Organization (WHO) in their report Adherence to Long-Term Therapies – Evidence for Action claims that in developed countries 50 per cent of ...

Josh Frydenberg’s first budget has generally been greeted with disappointment by the aged care industry, as ACI has reported elsewhere in some detail. One budget item the treasurer raised, however, gave me some reason for excitement. It was the announcement ...

Two years after the introduction of personalised funding in the home care sector, the evidence of its impact of increasing choice, control and quality through competitive markets is mixed. Research commissioned by the Department of Health to evaluate the experiences ...

It was just another shift working as a physiotherapist in a Melbourne emergency department. Hospitals, healthcare and aged care were all second nature to me, until I received a phone call that changed it all. It was my aunty on ...

The reputation of the aged care sector and individual providers will inevitably be damaged by the evidence expected at the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which started on February 11. The sector faces significant reform, which has ...