Residential care
- Readers respond: Your experiences of nursing homes in Australia
- GPs visiting aged care homes say it’s a frustrating experience
- Increase in aged care complaints welcomed by commissioner,
- Government review prompts 10 recommendations to ensure the safety and quality of care for the elderly
- Official visitors barred from Canberra aged care facilities
- Valley View aged care facility in Adelaide seeks reprieve
- Aged Care Crisis (Facebook video)
- Oakden whistleblower rings alarm bells at new aged care facility (video)
- Calls for aged-care overhaul after more suspicious deaths (video)
Understaffing/Ratios
- Daughter says aged care needs an overhaul
- Cost cutting and understaffing of aged care homes leads to rationing and neglect
- Aged care report card reveals ‘serious concerns’ about treatment of elderly in Victoria
- Union fears cuts at Ipswich aged care facilities
- Demand rises for personal care jobs
- Concerns for resident care at popular nursing home after nurses made redundant
- Full list of where Hillside at Figtree failed its residents
- Elderly at risk of neglect unless more and better paid aged care workers are employed
- Wallsend government-run nursing home fails key benchmarks
Medication management
- New focus on pain medications in aged care
- Change in psychotropic prescribing among aged care residents
- Meds mistakes ‘common’ in nursing homes
- Study: Opioid errors add to suffering of palliative care patients
- Fentanyl patches being stolen from elderly
Communication
Personal care
- Call for more scrutiny in aged care, after maggots found on woman in nursing home north of Newcastle
- Man dies after nursing home staff fail to properly treat wounds
- More sanctions imposed at Illawarra aged care home
Falls prevention
Dementia care
- When is a door not a door?
- Effective communication for people living with dementia is a two-way street
Meals
- Maggie Beer: Elders should come home to come alive. Why access to good food matters (YouTube video)
- Maggie Beer: There is no need – and no place for – institutionalised food (YouTube video)
- Maggie Beer: Food is medicine (YouTube video)
Mobile services
Intrusions/privacy
- Surveillance cameras in aged care should be considered
- Nurses’ watchdog told of financial abuse and thefts from elderly patients (Ireland)
- Do not disturb: Partnered Baby Boomers want couple rooms in aged care facilities
- How do we protect the rights of people in aged care?
- Surveillance cameras in aged care should be considered
Abuse (bullying/assault/financial)
- Elder abuse (audio 20:50)
- Elder abuse on the rise in step with galloping property prices
- How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
- Opal Aged Care managing director accused of bullying
- Opal boss Gary Barnier quits after review into aged care homes
- Aged care home employee charged with alleged assault of 85-year-old resident
- Elderly woman allegedly assaulted by carer at Adelaide private residential care facility
- Report released: Where Garrawarra failed in its care
Companionship
Respite services
- Review into respite is calling on you
- Government warned of respite shortage in residential aged care
Deaths
- More scrutiny needed to prevent premature nursing home deaths
- Nursing home where six people died on notice following audit
- Multiple deaths in Queensland nursing home leads to multi-pronged investigations
- Five deaths at Townsville nursing home prompt nurse sackings
Homelessness
- More and more older Australians will be homeless unless we act now
- Settlement guide: Rising homelessness in Australia (audio podcast)
In-home services
- Hopes for a big boost of funds for ‘in-home’ aged care>/span> (audio)
- What home care package changes can deliver for those wanting in-home care (audio)
- Home care data reveals 90,000 package shortfall
- Urgent calls to tackle in-home care waiting lists
- New measures to boost home care package take-up
- Half of providers report a drop in in-home care clients
- Report: Shrinking home care workforce raises concerns
Making a complaint
- Aged Care Complaints Commissioner Rae Lamb: How to make an aged care complaint (YouTube video)
- Law professor Ron Paterson: Complaints matter and transparency around complaints is critical (YouTube video)
Costs
- Profit-hungry firms are gambling on social care. Are the stakes too high? (UK)
- Court rules aged care fee to replace assets illegal
- Report: Four in five older Australians get public aged care
- Australians want insurance against the burden of old age
Policy and services
NDIS
- How the NDIS can be integrated within an aged care facility
- Could a rise in temporary jobs undermine the quality of the NDIS? (audio)
- How the NDIS helps young people living in aged care
Resources
- You don’t always have to disclose your finances when going into aged care
- Companion rooms show power of pets in aged care facility
- What is consumer-directed care? (audio 20:34)
- Nursing home fees explained (audio 16:36)
- How to choose a suitable nursing home (audio 21:07)
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation
- Better staffing will fix the crisis in aged care
- Crisis in aged care continues: Minister must act
- Ratios for aged care. Make them law. Now. (ANMF’s public awareness campaign launched)
- ANMF calls on politicians to make aged care staffing ratios law
- What a disgrace: Some providers spending just $6 a day for nursing home residents’ food
- ANMF says report again highlights need for improved staffing levels in aged care
- Nurses ‘shut out’ of ministerial aged care task force
- Nurses say aged care staffing levels ‘inadequate’
- ANMF outraged at sacking of Blue Care nurses
- Now it’s Blue Care cutting nursing hours for elderly residents
- Residents, nurses and carers – losers in Southern Cross ‘blame game’
- Minister must act to stop slashing of care hours at Southern Cross Care
- Surely it’s time for Government to fix aged care
- Poor staffing in aged care resulting in abuse of elderly
- Understaffing in nursing homes resulting in deaths that ‘shouldn’t be happening’
- ANMF welcomes review of aged care regulations
- Federal Minister agrees that nurses need ratios in aged care
- ANMF supports petition against low staffing in nursing homes
Aged Care: Are we getting it right? 