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?
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In future, Australia will spend much more on aged care. This increased spending needs to be well planned, so access is protected and all older people – regardless of income – get the care they need.
One proposal to fund the rising costs of aged care is a Medicare-style levy. However, this seemingly neat solution isn’t the answer to our aged care funding problems. Here’s why.
Aged care is one of the government’s biggest ongoing funding challenges. But for a sustainable system, we need to ensure everyone is paying their fair share. Here’s how to make it more equitable.
Elderly people living in aged care are among those most at risk. But not enough are getting vaccinated as we approach winter.
The decision to move a loved one with dementia into residential care is an incredibly difficult one. These considerations may help.
We spent 312 hours observing 39 residents at six Australian aged care facilities to find out how and where they spend their time across the day.
Respite care needs to be understood as a service for the carer as much as for the older person they care for.
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.
It’s time to rethink these physical environments with peoples’ fundamental human needs at the heart of design.
Devalued and paid significantly less than nurses, it’s no wonder Australia’s aged care workforce have had enough.
We measured financial literacy among 589 informal carers that substantially helped an older person make a decision about paying for residential aged care. Less than half were financially literate.
There are around 50 sexual assaults in Australian aged care homes every week. But staff are expected to assess the severity and impact of incidents without training.
Examining the records of 2,900 nursing homes we’ve found no evidence that where there’s more competition there’s better care or lower prices.
Remaking aged care in Australia starts with embracing people-centred design. Instead of the institutional model with its focus on restraint, we need to understand and design for people’s needs.
Many Australians come to the end of their life while living in aged care. But damningly, the aged care royal commission found many residents have worse palliative care options than those living elsewhere.
Disappointingly, however, this report gives the government room to pick and choose recommendations as the cabinet likes.
The free market experiment in residential aged care is failing older Australians. Rebuilding trust in the system starts with valuing residents’ rights, and holding government and providers to account.
Most aged care homes are designed to be naturally ventilated. But when windows are closed to keep out the cold, poor ventilation appears to be common – and that’s a problem for infection control.
For many people living in residential aged care, their priority is quality of life, not length of life. So how do we reconcile this with the need to restrict visitors during the coronavirus pandemic?
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Assistant, Monash University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Director of IMPACCT, Professor of Palliative Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Senior Research Analyst, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
