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4 key takeaways from the aged care royal commission's final report
ShutterstockThe 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 the 148 recommendations,...
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We all hope for a 'good death'. But many aged-care residents are denied...
ShutterstockDeath is inevitable, and in a civilised society everyone deserves a good one. It would therefore be logical to expect aged-care homes would provide superior end-of-life care. But sadly,...
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Patricia Sparrow on the Royal Commission into...
The Royal Commission into Aged Care has now delivered its final report, and its findings are an indictment of the inadequacies of the present system. The report calls for a refocus within the aged care...
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50% of Australians are prepared to pay more tax to improve aged care workers'...
www.shutterstock.comThe final report from the aged care royal commission this week was damning. Speaking of a system in crisis, it calls for an urgent overhaul. The Morrison government has been facing...
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Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning 'human-centred' vision for...
ShutterstockThe 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 recommendations relate...
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Next month’s federal budget is the time to stop talking about aged care and...
ShutterstockAustralia’s aged-care system is in a state of a disaster. The aged care royal commission’s final report, released last month, is just the latest in a decades-long string of depressing...
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We studied 50 years of royal commissions — here's how they make a difference
Joel Carrett/AAPOn Monday, Scott Morrison announced a royal commission into veteran suicides — the fourth royal commission set up under his prime ministership.But while Morrison says he hopes this will...
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There are problems in aged care, but more competition isn't the solution
Karen McFarland/ShutterstockThe solution to most problems in most markets is more competition.Whether it’s the market for hairdressers, for massage therapists or for general practitioners, usually, the...
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When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax
Australian Tax OfficeThe biggest unstated message from the intergenerational report released during the lull between lockdowns is that we will need more tax.Not now. At the moment it’s a matter of...
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How a new trade deal could make it harder to improve life for Australians in...
Prime Minister Morrison and Trade Minister Birmingham sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement in November 2020, Canberra.Lukas Coch/AAPThe Regional Comprehensive Economic...
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Only 3.8% of Australian aged care homes would meet new mandatory minimum...
ShutterstockOne of the most significant outcomes from the aged care royal commission was the federal government’s commitment this year to mandate minimum staffing levels in residential aged care homes...
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1,100 Australian aged care homes are locked down due to COVID. What have we...
ShutterstockAustralia’s aged care homes are being devastated by the current wave of COVID infections, with more than 1,100 outbreaks affecting over 7,000 residents and staff. Fear of outbreaks has...
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How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home
ShutterstockThe stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic. Residential aged care buildings are often institutionally designed, even if they...
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Quality costs more. Very few aged care facilities deliver high quality care...
ShutterstockYou don’t have to look to far to find examples of poor quality residential aged care. Most recently, residents have too often been un-vaccinated, frightened, isolated, and have died alone...
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Anthony Albanese offers $2.5 billion plan to 'fix crisis in aged care'
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has made comprehensive reform of aged care the centrepiece of his budget reply delivered on Thursday night. His “plan to fix the crisis in aged care” is costed at...
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Labor's budget reply goes big on aged care, similar on much else
In most years, the opposition leader’s budget reply passes virtually unnoticed.By convention, it is delivered two days after the budget.It’s different when an election is imminent. Then it becomes a...
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Labor's pledge to properly pay women and care workers is a start, but it...
Aged-care workers are notoriously underpaid for the level of skill, responsibility, and judgement they exercise. Even employers acknowledge it.The aged care royal commission found low wages, poor...
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How to complain about aged care and get the result you want
ShutterstockIt can be hard to know what to say, or who to talk to, if you notice something isn’t right for you or a loved one in residential aged care.You might have concerns about personal or medical...
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Could 'virtual nurses' be the answer to aged care staffing woes? Dream on
ShutterstockFormer Health Department Chief Martin Bowles has reportedly proposed“virtual nurses” could help address the shortage of nurses in aged care. This might involve remote, possibly artificial...
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Australia needs an honest conversation about tax and budgets – and Jim...
Mick Tsikas/AAPJim Chalmers is a wily operator. Ahead of delivering his first budget next Tuesday, he has given himself room to do the things a treasurer needs to do.For a while, his predecessor Josh...
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Carers of older Australians need more support – but we found unpaid extended...
ShutterstockAged care is being hit both ways by the ageing of Australia’s population. While population ageing is increasing the number of Australians in need of formal care, it’s also reducing the...
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Sarah Holland-Batt wins the 2023 Stella Prize with a powerful look at death...
Sarah Holland-Batt Mindy Gill/The Stella PrizeAcclaimed poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize for her powerful and elegiac collection of poetry, The Jaguar. Poetry was excluded from the...
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New Aussie musical Bloom misses an opportunity to interrogate the gaps in...
Pia Johnson/Melbourne Theatre CompanyBloom, the new Australian musical produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is proudly billed by the company as born and bred right here in Melbourne/Naarm....
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Changes are coming for Australia’s aged care system. Here’s what we know so far
Centre for Ageing Better/UnsplashAustralia’s subsidised aged care services now help around 1.5 million older people to receive care and support. Taxpayers contributed A$28 billion to the various...
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It’ll take more than 15% to beat the stigmas turning people off aged care
ShutterstockAged care workers will see their award wages increase by 15% at the end of this month. It’s recognition that their work has been undervalued, and that something needs to be done to solve...
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