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Most immunisation campaigns continue to primarily focus on infants and children, but almost 4 million Australian adults are not vaccinated against preventable diseases.
For couples, families or friends who share a significant song, the effects of music can be powerful and persistent, lasting well into old age, even piercing through dementia.
Older people in nursing homes or aged care facilities are often locked up “for their own safety”, which new research says isn’t usually needed.
Older Australians needing extra help at home with bathing or gardening can now choose who provides that service. So what do you need to know before choosing a new service for yourself or a family member?
As our population ages and life expectancy increases so does the need for comprehensive health and care services for older people.
Senator Jacqui Lambie told Q&A that a third of Australian age pensioners are living below the poverty line and that it’s estimated to rise to two-thirds within five years. Is that right?
Nursing home providers looking to cut costs are bypassing registered nurses and employing less-skilled personal care attendants (PCAs) who aren’t trained for the job.
Often the same centres in need of more care workers are those with high local unemployment.
Admitting a loved one to a nursing home is a difficult decision and is usually only arrived at once the person’s care needs cannot be met by the family and community-based services.
Our mixed feelings about ageing are clearly revealed in the language we use to talk about it.
Increasing competition among aged care suppliers may not mean better services, due to market failures.
Research shows people who suffer from loss of meaning die earlier than those who maintain purpose. We can help people find meaning again by nurturing their “spirit”.
A perverse funding incentive creates or maintains the dependency of older people livin
Most people in western societies die in hospital or in institutional care. Keeping death out of sight and out of mind means few people have real experience of death and dying.
More than half (52%) of aged care residents have symptoms of depression, compared with 10-15% of older people living in the community.
More than 7,000 young Australians with disabilities are forced to live in nursing homes because they’re unable to find suitable accommodation that meets their needs. But this may be about to change.
The contrast between rights with dignity and rights without is increasingly apparent with regard to two groups of Australians: retirees and those in aged-care facilities.
If the 5.5 million unpaid carers didn’t look after others – at the expense of careers and incomes – taxpayers would bear the costs, so as a community we should give carers a fairer deal in retirement.
Have you thought about how you would want to be treated if you cannot make your own decisions? You may be unconscious after car accident, you may be so ill you cannot communicate, or you may be dying and…
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Aged Care, Corporate Governance and Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Associate, International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW, UNSW
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Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland; The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University