Tag: Aged care
Grattan on Saturday: Anthony Albanese treads cautious path in navigating around giveaway budget
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It’s a paradox. The Morrison government, in deep trouble, has produced a budget that’s shamelessly designed to try to buy votes. But...
How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home
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The stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic.
Residential aged care buildings...
Nursing home residents are paying $800 a week for services they are barely getting
Juniper Chrystal Halliday Residential Aged Care.
Nursing home residents confined to their rooms during COVID are like hypothetical tenants locked in their bedrooms by landlords...
Older Australians are already bamboozled by a complex home-care system. So why give them more of the same?
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More than a million older Australians need care at home each year. More than 1,000 agencies provide services to them.
Despite the federal government allocating significant extra funds to...
Budget package doesn’t guarantee aged-care residents will get better care
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The big investment in aged care announced in last night’s federal budget – an extra A$17.7 billion over five years – is...
Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning ‘human-centred’ vision for aged care into reality
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organisations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will put its recommendations into effect. Most of these...