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High quality medical and health care delivered by doctors and nurses must reside at the heart of the Australian aged care system
Aged-care residents will be among the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine when the rollout begins next week. For some, the process of consenting to the vaccine could raise ethical questions.
As Covid-19 surges around the country, workers in nursing homes and assisted living centers are watching cases rise in long-term care facilities with a sense of dread. Many of these workers struggle with grief over the suffering they've witnessed.
Machines can hold simple conversations and have been found to improve mental health
As COVID continues to infect and kill in Victoria's aged care homes, the country's top medical advisor says they are learning as they go on the aged care situation. But experts say the structural problems that are driving the infections are well understood.
The royal commission into aged care declared older people and their families were left “isolated and powerless". COVID-19 has provided a tragic real time vindication of the commission's observation.
“We knew that when the virus came we had to take care of ourselves, because no one else would,” the director said.
Aged care homes need to have protocols in place to prevent COVID-19 infection in the first instance. But in the event an outbreak does occur, they need to be well prepared.
Nigel Hart, 46, has had 15 heart attacks, his kidneys don't work and he's blind in one eye. He is also living inside a nursing home with a COVID-19 outbreak.
This week Prime Minister Scott Morison reminded aged care providers that recommendations by health experts was to “not shut people off or to lock them away in their rooms." This staff member of an aged care facility shares her experience and the impact of COVID-19 restrictions are having on residents.
The facilities knew that frail and aging residents were especially vulnerable to the outbreak, but they were unable to stop it.
Since 2015, 161 rest home complaints received by the ministry have been substantiated. Issues included unexplained injuries, rough handling of residents, family communication, food quality, medication and pain management, and a strong smell of urine at facilities.
As our lifespans increase, more and more of us are faced with the question: how can we care for older people more effectively?
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Son praises his mother's fighting legacy, after rest home failures trigger reform.
Advocates say some of the mistakes of the first wave are being repeated.
Most aged care providers across Australia have severely restricted visits to residents during the pandemic, but with online and face-to-face training in COVID-19 precautions, Kerrie Foord was able to keep visiting her father.
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Don’t blame care staff for the Covid-19 crisis. They do their best but are low-paid, overworked and lack training
First it was Newmarch house in New South Wales, and now outbreaks in Victoria's aged care sector are a reminder of the risk the virus poses to elderly Australians, particularly in residential facilities. Here are measures being taken to stop it.
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The number of Victorian aged care residents who have COVID-19 has almost tripled in five days.
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A Western Sydney aged-care home is in lockdown after a staff member who tested positive to coronavirus worked six shifts while showing symptoms of the deadly bug.
Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents' access to mental heath services will be key.
Older people living in residential aged care often have few friends, no meaningful interactions and feel socially isolated. Most people are depressed and some may no longer wish to live.
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