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. ...

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 ...

The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...

“We’re not funded for how happy a resident is.” That’s one of the ways in which the current aged care system fails to incentivise good practice, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety heard. Lucy O’Flaherty, who heads ...

Two sisters took the stand at the aged care royal commission on Wednesday and told the room that they had held their sobbing mother’s hand as she had her teeth extracted due to neglect by an aged care facility. The ...