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 ...

Aged care staff are testing the usefulness of virtual reality headsets for senior clients, and it’s transforming wound management procedures. Originally developed by the gaming industry, VR intervention has emerged in clinical care as a non-medicinal method to distract patients ...