Making meals more appealing and giving aged care residents more choice, sounds simple enough. But you need the right ingredients to make it work on a wide scale.
Articles on Royal Commission into Aged Care
Displaying 1 - 20 of 22 articles
Aboriginal Elders play an important role as community leaders and cultural knowledge holders. Supporting this aspect of ageing well is crucial.
This is an important and complex decision. It can affect your income, wealth, means-tested aged care fee, and bequests. Here are some things to consider before you decide.
Love and intimacy are valuable for wellbeing at every age. But for older people, especially those in aged care, intimacy can be complicated. Carol Lefevre explores, through real life and fiction.
Tuesday’s budget will provide $49.5 million for aged care training for existing workers and people who want to work in the sector.
We measured financial literacy among 589 informal carers that substantially helped an older person make a decision about paying for residential aged care. Less than half were financially literate.
There are around 50 sexual assaults in Australian aged care homes every week. But staff are expected to assess the severity and impact of incidents without training.
If we want the latest health care, disability care and aged care, we’ll have to be prepared to pay for it.
Remaking aged care in Australia starts with embracing people-centred design. Instead of the institutional model with its focus on restraint, we need to understand and design for people’s needs.
We’ve developed a four-point plan to build back better.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Director of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, Dr Laine Dare discuss the week in politics.
After two years, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has handed down its final report .
The royal commission into aged care has opened a priceless window for reform. A Grattan Institute report says this requires more funding, local accountability, and a louder voice for older Australians.
The royal commission into aged care has said government did not prepare the sector well enough for the pandemic.
Scott Morrison finds himself besieged on two fronts in the political war over aged care.
Scott Morrison is finding, to his great discomfort, the royal commissioners probing aged care aren’t keeping their thoughts to themselves until their final report in February.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon
The state of aged care preparation in the era of COVID is, it seems, in the eye of the beholder.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care put the secretary of the federal health department, Brendan Murphy, firmly in his place.
The federal government has clashed with the Royal Commission into Aged Care, strongly rejecting the claim that it had no specific COVID-19 plan.
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Monash University
-
Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
-
Research assistant, Monash University
-
Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
-
Secretary of the Dharriwaa Elders Group, Indigenous Knowledge
-
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University
-
Associate Professor, UNSW
-
Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania
-
Senior Research Fellow, UNSW
-
Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania
-
Research Assistant, Monash University
-
Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
-
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Political Economy; Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work; and, co-convenor Work + Family Policy Roundtable, University of Sydney