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Continuous tracking using real-time location systems is becoming increasingly common in hospitals and long-term care homes, raising questions about ethics and data use.
Addressing the financial and personal aspects of aging proactively helps to ensure that you will receive the care you need – and want – as you age.
Residents with higher incomes and assets will be required to pay for a larger contribution than those on a pension.
Most of the indirect care workforce will only see a pay rise between 3% and 7%.
You’re worried and you want to see them well cared for. You’ve tried to talk to them about aged care but been met with swift refusal. Now what?
Here’s how to go about raising issues with the relevant person or authority to improve aged-care standards for you or your loved one.
Aged care facilities and hospices can block access to voluntary assisted dying, despite it being legal in your state.
You may not need to sell the family home before entering aged care. There are other options.
Home care aides play a critical role in providing health care to the elderly and other groups at the greatest risk of infection. Yet these workers are vulnerable too.
Australia’s rich diversity is reflected in its older population. It’s time our nursing homes do the same.
If you’ve read the headlines about poor standards in Australia’s nursing homes, it’s only natural to be concerned about your own family or friends in residential aged care.
Nurses who surround the process of medically assisted dying are an important source of insight into the real conversations our society needs to have about what it’s really like.
It’s all very well having rights. But what do these rights really mean when you’re with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?
Bureaucratic ‘red tape’ has contributed to the current crisis in our aged care system. We need a system of accountability that focuses more on residents’ outcomes, and less on processes.
While the majority of aged care funding comes from government, residents also have to contribute. Here’s how the payment system works.
By the time the aged care royal commission’s recommendations lead to improvements in our nursing homes, four cohorts of residents will have died. Here’s why.
People with dementia can become agitated or distressed when the temperature isn’t right, but some aged-care facilities aren’t designed or operated to keep them comfortable.
Evacuating nursing home residents during a disaster can be even more dangerous than staying put.
The myth of compassion fatigue suggests that compassion is a finite resource. The reality is that health-care providers are over-worked and need better institutional support.
Top contributors
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Associate professor, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University
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Emeritus Professor La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Justice Health Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Literature, Western Civilisation Program, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Professor, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), University of Wollongong
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Professor, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate, Rehabilitation Science Institute, University of Toronto
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Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University
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Chief, Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology Professor, Emory University
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Professorial Fellow and Executive Director, Dementia Training Australia, University of Wollongong