Too often when we think of a leader, we think of a person at the top of a pyramid or at the tip of an arrow. While leading ‘from the top’ or ‘from the front’ can be effective if your ...
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Does anyone really know what a good frail life looks like?
There have always been three big age-stages in our lives – marked by turning 21, 40 and 65 (the key to the door, life begins at, the gold watch). So, as we live longer is a fourth turning up or ...
More »What really matters: Time for a new vision of ageing and care
Despite all the scientific and medical advances of recent centuries, nothing can bring back the dead we have lost due to the pandemic. Nor can the prosperity and general affluence of modern life erase the pain of losing loved ones ...
More »Why aged care providers should be fired by aged care clients: opinion
For too long aged care services have focused on balancing budgets while compromising on client care. Unfortunately, the way funding is allocated and providers are evaluated has incentivised a budget-driven mindset, whereas I believe a person-centred model would provide better ...
More »Why aged care residents with COVID-19 should be transferred to hospital: opinion
More than a third of care residents who have contracted COVID-19 have died.[1] That’s more than 36 times higher than the rest of Australia’s population.If COVID-19 was tearing through schools or workplaces in such numbers there would be uproar and a call for ...
More »Care in the nursing home: making telehealth the norm in Australia’s aged care sector
What a difference a few months can make. Experts here in Australia and around the world have been putting up a convincing use case for telehealth for close on three decades now. They know it can improve access to healthcare ...
More »Is there an alternative future for aged care?
The coronavirus has been described as a cunning and invisible enemy by virologists and politicians. They should know what it takes! As its genetic code compels it to continually reproduce to survive, the virus effectively seeks out whatever opportunity it ...
More »Aged care is in crisis and we don’t really care: opinion
All of us know aged care is in crisis. The problem is we don’t really care. Harsh? Perhaps. But it’s an easily testable proposition. So that’s what Catholic Health Australia did during last month’s Eden-Monaro by-election. When we polled voters ...
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