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

Aged care facilities still fully accredited by quality and safety commission failing to meet standards in SA

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