Tag: Residential aged care
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.
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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...
If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia
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In the face of the harrowing findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and the COVID-19 crisis, it’s abundantly clear...
The budget must address aged care — here are 3 key priorities
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Australia’s aged care system has produced a litany of failures: unpalatable food, poor care, neglect, abuse and, most recently, the tragedies of...
The government has thrown another $171 million at the problem. But a real plan for aged care has been missing all along
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As deaths in aged care continue to rise, the community may find the Morrison government’s announcement of an additional A$171.5 million to boost...
Australia’s residential aged care facilities are getting bigger and less home-like
Most older people want to stay at home as long as they can. When this is no longer possible, they move into residential aged care facilities,...