Tracey Burton, Executive Director, UnitingCare (NSW/ACT), talks about how to develop a quality and safety culture within an organisation, as well as the compliance process. Related articles Insight Practical tips to prepare for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety ...
Culture and language diversity in aged care is afundamental human right. Embedding diversity in all aspects of aged care is also recognised bygovernment, and in how the quality of aged care is assessed. Newaged care quality standards, which came into effect this July, include being treated with...
quality improvementquality measurementBackground In Australia, 243?000 individuals live in approximately 2700 residential aged care facilities yearly. In 2019, a National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator programme (QI programme) was implemented to monitor the quality and safety of care in facilities...
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs?: Understanding The Quality of Aged Care Jobs, and Why It Matters. Much research on paid care work focuses on this work as care. An equally important issue is its characteristic as paid work. This paper focuses on the char... Martin,Bill - 《Australian Journal of ...
Sleep quality and depression mediate the relationship between psychological resilience and quality of life in middle-aged and older adults hospitalized with chronic diseases. Therefore, healthcare professionals and stakeholders should be concerned about the sleep status and mental health of middle-aged and...
During the investigation, a leaflet with explanations along with the necessary equipment (3 L standard urine collection container) was provided to the participants and 24-h urine collection procedures were explained19, i.e., urinate upon waking on the first day, discard that sample and then ...
Second, although GBD adjusted alternative case definitions and differential access to health care, ICD codes for extracting CVD cases might lead to compositional bias due to that a proportion of patients are different from the confirmed cases defined by standard criteria. Third, clinical data in GBD...
Aged Care Quality and Safety.2 This Virtual Issue of the Australasian Journal on Ageing is the third in a series on aged care quality and safety and responds to two of the Royal Commission on Aged Care Quality and Safety Terms of Reference: e) how to ensure that aged care services are ...
1. Introduction Providing food choice is very important in the aged care sector, where quality of life is paramount [1]. The actual food choices vary with individuals and include unconscious and conscious decisions made by an elderly person before or at the point of food consumption [2]. Food...
improve the quality of aged care. The key topic of elder abuse and its forms are discussed apropos of aged care nursing. Healthy ageing is promoted by identifying and reporting elder abuse at the earliest. Current Australian law and recent federal legislation changes pertaining to aged care nursin...