Over 4500 people under 65 years of age live in residential aged care (RAC) in Australia, and they experience poorer quality of life than people with similar disabilities in other settings. Governments have long aimed to reduce admissions of young people to RAC, but in 2019, for the first ...
This paper examines aged care issues and the provision of aged care services in Australia.A Medline search and review of Australian government publications was undertaken and complemented by a review of local Australian resources.Australia has seen major development of aged care services over the last...
Inside Aged Careis a critical analysis of Australia's aged care system illustrating why the system is failing and exposing flaws so that as a community, we can work towards addressing the problems and have something we all want and which will work. We need to look in-depth, from multiple ...
(1995), Aged Care Assessment Teams in Australia: a General Practice Perspective. Australian Journal on Ageing, 14: 27–30. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1995.tb00685.x Author Information 1 currently a general practitioner in Bathurst 2 Professor of Rehabilitation and Aged Care at Flinders University ...
SYDNEY, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Australian aged care providers are calling on the incoming Labor government to realize its promise by nominating aged care reform as a priority and addressing the current issues in the aged care system. Catholic Health Australia (CHA), the nation's largest non-gover...
"Although there is much that has been done to respond to the presenting issues, regrettably, much of the government's response has fallen short of what Australia's older people in care have needed," read the letter published on Thursday. ...
Professor Fetherstonhaugh said as Australia's population ages and the need for residential aged care facilities grows, it is important that the right to intimacy and sexual expression of older adults moving into residential aged care is respected. "Intimacy contributes to our well-being and extends ...
Using the initial four-month QI data sourced from a large RAC provider in Australia, this study aimed to: (1) examine QOL and QCE of RAC facility residents to establish a baseline understanding of the QOL and QCE among Australian aged care sector (Subsections 3.2 and 3.3), (2) examine ...
The Leader of the Opposition, Anthony Albanese, spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra today, attacking the Morrison government over its handling of aged care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Albanese criticised the government over its handling of aged care deaths in Victoria during the coronav...
摘要: As Australia's population ages, the number of people faced with the financial challenges of aged care is increasing, posing serious questions not only for fund members, but financial advisers and super fund trustees alike - as Geoff Rimmer explains....