Four Corners this week revealed understaffing and poor staff training in aged care. These issues have also been found in previous reviews into aged care.
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Millions of older Australians live in houses that don't safely meet their needs, but they're not ready for a nursing home. Lack of suitable housing and the moving costs leave them with nowhere to go.
A report that recommends 43 ways to prevent elder abuse acknowledges we don't even know how often it occurs in Australia.
Nursing home providers looking to cut costs are bypassing registered nurses and employing less-skilled personal care attendants (PCAs) who aren't trained for the job.
Often the same centres in need of more care workers are those with high local unemployment.
Admitting a loved one to a nursing home is a difficult decision and is usually only arrived at once the person's care needs cannot be met by the family and community-based services.
More than half (52%) of aged care residents have symptoms of depression, compared with 10-15% of older people living in the community.
More than half of the Australian population believe they’re in very good to excellent health, have a high level of confidence in the health system and support the policy direction that the federal government’s…
As the baby boomers approach older age, the number of Australians aged over 65 is projected to rise from around 14% to 24% by 2056. Given that not even a massive influx of immigrants would reverse this…
Recent media reports have highlighted an anomaly in residential aged-care funding in Australia: that day-to-day operations of facilities are governed by both Commonwealth and state government policies…
Cancer rates of people over the age of 65 is due to triple by 2040, according to researchers in the United Kingdom. A study…
Life expectancy in [Australia](http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features10Mar+2011](http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features10Mar+2011) is at an all-time…
Much of the budget analysis over the past week has concentrated on the shuffling of expenditure for 2012-13 back to this financial year in order to achieve a surplus. It’s true that $17.6bn of such transfers…
The Government’s aged care reforms are a landmark for setting valuable directions for better care. It’s the first such major initiative in more than 25 years – but there’s a long and uncertain road ahead…
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Director of IMPACCT, Professor of Palliative Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Health Policy, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Ageing and Public Policy, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Older Persons' Health Care, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin University
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Principal Researcher, Research Matters; Research Officer, Monash University
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Deakin University
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Deputy Chair, Psychological Sciences; Convenor, Clinical Psychology Programs, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
