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How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home

Image: Shutterstock The stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic. Residential aged care buildings...

Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning ‘human-centred’ vision for aged care into reality

  Picture: Shuttlestock 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...

4 key takeaways from the aged care royal commission’s final report

 Picture: Shuttlestock The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s final report into aged care has laid out an extensive plan to overhaul Australia’s aged-care system. Among...

Aged care isn’t working, but we can create neighbourhoods to support healthy ageing in place

Image: Kathleen Brasher, Author provided In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed issues and inequities across society. How we plan for ageing populations and older...

If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia

Image: Shuttlestock 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

Picture: Daniel Pockett/AAP Australia’s aged care system has produced a litany of failures: unpalatable food, poor care, neglect, abuse and, most recently, the tragedies of...

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,...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.