The Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), a group of six Australian aged care peak bodies, also called for an immediate injection of funds to avoid further deepening of the current crisis in the system.■
Many are in need of formal aged care at a younger age than the general population, yet, in Australia, specialised aged-care services to support this vulnerable cohort are limited.#This study was an evaluation of a new purpose-built aged care home for people with high care needs and who ...
Objective: To identify and prioritize a range of potential interventions to manage polypharmacy in RACFs from the perspectives of health care professionals, health policy and consumer representatives. Methods: Two nominal group technique (NGT) sessions were convened in August 2015. A purposive sample ...
In April 2023, quality of life (QOL) and quality of care experience (QCE) indicators were introduced as mandatory indicators in Australian residential aged care (RAC) to measure and monitor wellbeing and consumer experience respectively. In this study, we used data for the initial four months ...
Nurses are the largest group of registered healthcare professionals and are fundamental to delivering health and aged care in Australia. To explore how nursing students report clinical experiences when caring for older people as part of a larger study investigating how care of the older person conten...
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He meets Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie), another schizophrenic, during their group therapy sessions. They quickly launch into a passionate affair. The intensity of their love stems from their conviction that they were made for one another. After they move in together, they believe their love is so...
The implied connection has been particularly evident during the coronavirus pandemic through the imposition on older people, who are living in aged and long-term care facilities, of severe lockdown restrictions enforced through the processes of risk governmentality and authoritative control. These socio-...
The ways in which these factors play out in Australia mean that while overseas-born workers are overrepresented in the LTC workforce, migrant care workers are not identifiable as a marginalized group experiencing disadvantage in employment conditions, nor do they offer a solution to workforce ...
"People have to be convinced about the merits of politics on a good day. But this government is hopelessly divided and we've got the aged care crisis," he told Nine Network television. "We've got people with disabilities risking COVID-19. I think the nation wants us to focus on the ...