In Case You Missed It – Below are links to recent articles on Aged Care and Healthcare that may be of interest:
Furious family lash out over elderly mum’s treatment during Earle Haven crisis
Inquiry to look into unexpected closure of facility
Aged care residents turned into ‘zombies’ on antipsychotics for more than 200 days at a time
Aged care worker reveals brutal reality of the job in viral post
Nursing home patient found dead in neighbour’s pool, sparking investigation
What happens when aged care operators go broke
‘We are damning ourselves’: Big problem with the way Australia treats its elderly population
Schoolboy, aged 10, vows to keep visiting 90-year-old veteran in care home
Device shows promise for preventing pressure sores
Elderly woman slapped in Goulburn aged care facility, man arrested
Antipsychotics overused in residential aged care: Study
Aged care residents returning from hospital suffer unnecessary complications
Your rights and Refundable Accommodation Deposits
Call to fix access to aged care respite
Carer of dementia sufferer had no support
A business case for ‘going up the country’: 2019 ACAR
‘How did this happen?’: Owners speak after shock nursing home closure
No aged care respite available ‘unless someone dies’
Aged Care Royal Commission: Mildura right fit for aged care royal commission
Coroner To Investigate Death At Queensland’s Newest Nursing Home
Aged Care Royal Commission: Fears for future deepening, aged care royal commission hears
Aged care royal commission hears of ‘fatal flaw’ in Australia’s aged care system
ROYAL COMMISSION: Carers know best
ROYAL COMMISSION: Carers have no support
Mum could have been saved: aged inquiry
Migrants, refugees encouraged to ‘tell their stories’ to Aged Care Royal Commission
Funding available to upskill aged care staff
Qld aged care boss ‘a bully, drunk on job’
Maggie Beer’s fight for better food in aged care homes
‘If it’s not a criminal charge, it should be’: Calls for aged-care subcontracting probe
Royal commission probes aged home closure
Strategies to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalisations among long-term care facility residents