The government must introduce significant reforms to deal with the high rates of sexual assault in residential care homes, experts have said. Recent revelations that 50 sexual assaults occur in an aged care home each week have drawn attention to ...
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Rescued greyhounds racing to improve wellbeing of residents
In the coming months residents living in HammondCare homes will enjoy regular visits from slender canine companions. Syndey-based Greyhound Rescue partnered up with the aged care home to pilot the Australian-first program 'Hounds Helping Humans', with an eye on improving ...
More »Homelessness and climate change top concerns among older people
Over fifty per cent of older Australians consider climate change and homelessness to be significant issues, a new survey has found. Peak aged care body COTA asked over 6,000 older Australians living in NSW about their attitudes and feelings on ...
More »Call for more humane media portrayal of older people: podcast
Older people are being portrayed as being in ill-health, victims, or being a burden on society in the Australian media, prompting researchers to call for changes in how society thinks about ageing. A new QUT study, 'Visibility and invisibility in ...
More »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 »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 »‘Akin to a hotel’ – one resident’s experience of life in an aged care home: podcast
Alwyn Gordon has found that she doesn't mind living in residential aged care. After a stroke, Alwyn was told she needed to move into a home and, at first, didn't like the idea of leaving her house behind. Now, she ...
More »Pharmacists sidelined leaving residents at risk, experts warn
Researchers from the University of South Australia are calling for an increase in on-site pharmacist visits for residential aged care. Each month, one in five older people living in aged care homes has an adverse response to medication while over half of ...
More »The ’empowering’ choice of deciding when to die – Podcast
Fifteen older people in a recent study said being in charge of when they die is "empowering". The qualitative survey from Edith Cowan University took a deep dive into the opinions of older people on Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) and found ...
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