Aged care
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BODY/SOUL/SPIRIT
What happens if you want access to voluntary assisted dying but your nursing home won’t let you?
Image: ShutterstockVoluntary assisted dying is now lawful in all Australian states. There is also widespread community support for it.Yet some residential institutions, such as hospices and aged-care...
BODY/SOUL/SPIRIT
Serving up choice and dignity in aged care – how meals are enjoyed is about more than what’s on the plate
Image: Unsplash/CDCMeals are rituals built around pleasures and choices. While what is served at mealtimes in aged care homes has received recent attention and Labor has pledged to...
CONTRIBUTORS AND BLOGGERS
Labor ahead 54-46% in post-budget Newspoll, as Morrison rejects claims of racist tactics in his preselection fight
Image: SARAH RHODES/AAPLabor’s two-party lead has been cut back slightly, to 54-46%, and its primary vote has fallen in the post-budget Newspoll. But Anthony Albanese...
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Anthony Albanese offers $2.5 billion plan to ‘fix crisis in aged care’
Image: Mick Tsikas/AAPOpposition leader Anthony Albanese has made comprehensive reform of aged care the centrepiece of his budget reply delivered on Thursday night.His “plan...
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Grattan on Saturday: Anthony Albanese treads cautious path in navigating around giveaway budget
Image: Lukas Coch/AAPIt’s a paradox. The Morrison government, in deep trouble, has produced a budget that’s shamelessly designed to try to buy votes. But...
AGED CARE
How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home
Image: ShutterstockThe stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic.Residential aged care buildings...
AGED CARE
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...
BODY/SOUL/SPIRIT
Older Australians are already bamboozled by a complex home-care system. So why give them more of the same?
Image: ShutterstockMore 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...
AGED CARE
Budget package doesn’t guarantee aged-care residents will get better care
Picture: ShuttlestockThe big investment in aged care announced in last night’s federal budget – an extra A$17.7 billion over five years – is...
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Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning ‘human-centred’ vision for aged care into reality
Picture: ShuttlestockThe 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...
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