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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...