Caring work hasn’t been properly valued for a century, in part because it is thought of as women’s work
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Only 4% of for-profit aged care providers are in the highest quality tier.
It’s time to rethink these physical environments with peoples’ fundamental human needs at the heart of design.
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 will need to be substantial increases in staffing across the sector in the next two years.
New research suggests many Australians are supportive of a levy to improve the aged care system.
The royal commission into aged care has opened a priceless window for reform. A Grattan Institute report says this requires more funding, local accountability, and a louder voice for older Australians.
If Australia created more age-friendly neighbourhoods — which really are more liveable for everyone — then we wouldn’t have to rely so heavily on underfunded, substandard aged-care homes.
Michelle Grattan discusses this week in politics with University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Leigh Sullivan.
Cost-cutting, funding that doesn’t reward good food, and residents not having a voice contribute to poor quality nutrition in our aged care homes. That can be devastating. But there is a better way.
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.
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…
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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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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Professor, School of Management, RMIT University
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
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, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Older Persons' Health Care, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
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Principal Researcher, Research Matters; Research Officer, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, La Trobe University
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Director, Australian Catholic University
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Deakin University
