If Australia created more age-friendly neighbourhoods — which really are more liveable for everyone — then we wouldn’t have to rely so heavily on underfunded, substandard aged-care homes.
Articles on Aged Care Series 2020
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Integrated care is the way forward in Asian societies — this is the best solution for maintaining a high quality of life among older adults.
Part of the solution might be a Medicare-style levy.
Thanks to review upon review, we have plenty of evidence about the problems in aged care. But federal governments have shown ‘a lack of willingness to commit to change’.
The free market experiment in residential aged care is failing older Australians. Rebuilding trust in the system starts with valuing residents’ rights, and holding government and providers to account.
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Associate Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Executive Director of the Centre for Ageing Research & Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore
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Senior Research Associate, International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, La Trobe University
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow (Regional Community Development), Strategic Research Projects, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, Adelaide University
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Assistant Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Associate, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University