Ongoing diet and nutrition problems in the care of a Wollongong aged care resident and a lack of good wound care practices point to wider underlying problems within the sector. Those were some of the concerns raised by the resident’s ...

Poor wound management led to an aged care resident having maggots found in her heel and the aged care home tried to cover it up, the royal commission has heard. Annunziata Santoro lived in residential aged care at Assisi Aged ...

Person-centred care was at the heart of the recent Perth hearing of the royal commission. Derived from the ideas of Carl Rodgers and Thomas Kitwood, person-centred care can be defined as care which is unique to the patient – their preferences ...

“It is clear through my work as commissioner that older people are not always valued.” This is the opinion of Kay Patterson, Commonwealth Age Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian senator who had a stint as state minister for health and ...

One hundred assaults over four-and-a-half years is not evidence of systemic issues among staff, according to aged care provider Japara’s chief executive, Mark Sudholz. Sudholz appeared uncomfortable at the royal commission Perth hearing on Tuesday, and by the end of his ...

The new Aged Care Quality Standards come into effect on July 1st 2019. The Royal Commission so far has put immense pressure on providers who now need the confidence and certainty they are monitoring and delivering outcomes like never before. ...

One of Australia’s biggest aged care providers will be asked by the royal commission how it responded to one of its workers assaulting an elderly resident on camera. The footage was taken in Clarence Hausler’s bedroom at Mitcham Residential Care ...

Maggots were found in the mouth of a respite patient at an aged care facility in Broome and the incident was reported anonymously to the aged care complaints commissioner. The Royal Commission’s Broome hearing was told that during the course of ...