From aggressive patients with Alzheimer’s to frustrated caregivers, dementia is increasingly entwined with violence in private homes and residential facilities.
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Australia’s aged care sector is in trouble. Our experts have previously explored the complex aspects of the system, exposing where the problems are, and have been for some time.
Attorney-General Christian Porter on a crowded agenda
Christian Porter says the response to the consultations for a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse has been very strong with a total of 167 attendees at consultation sessions so far.
In a period of declining housing affordability and precarious employment, older people are sitting on a “nest egg”.
The federal governments efforts to tackle the financial abuse of elders is to be welcomed - but will banks be properly empowered to act?
A report that recommends 43 ways to prevent elder abuse acknowledges we don’t even know how often it occurs in Australia.
The Law Reform Commission has recommended that banks take ‘reasonable steps’ to protect vulnerable Australians.
Women over 60 are being killed in their own homes - but little more is known about these crimes.
With incidence of elder abuse, mostly within families, on the rise, the government is looking for much-needed legislative measures to combat it.
New research reveals how many people over the age of 60 have been raped in the UK – and it is time to act.
The UK’s palliative care is excellent - but that hasn’t prevented scandals like the Liverpool Care Pathway and Mid-staffs.
That the Care Quality Commission, the watchdog in charge of health and social care in England, is considering hidden cameras and mystery-shopper exercises in care homes and domiciliary care sounds plausible…
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, Adelaide University
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Investigative Journalist, The Conversation
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Teaching Professor at WVU
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Research Assistant, Monash University
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Monash University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Associate Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Research assistant, Monash University
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Professor of Chemistry and Senior Scientist of the Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto
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Reader in Nursing Ethics, University of Surrey
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington