Two leading elder law firms are combining resources to help residents in aged care facilities being unlawfully chemically restrained, and their concerned family members. A recent Commonwealth Government audit showed that 90 per cent of residents at a…
Just the other day a friend drew my attention to the comment below. It is dated January 2018 and is a response to an article in Australian Ageing Agenda (written in November 2015) re one of the many reviews into aged care. It refers to the need for higher…
People are usually stunned to learn that there are no set staff/resident ratios in aged-care homes. They simply assume that frail older people in care will be treated like other…
Imagine waking from deep sleep to see a stranger’s face staring right down at you. Then imagine that someone enters your private space many times a week and that you are 96 years…
Last week the federal government finally got around to announcing its long-promised, aged-care reform agenda. Yet the stunning thing about the announcement was not the package…
Aged Care Crisis
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Opinion
Articles
Why our society and human services are in trouble
Aligning regulation across Care and Support Sector
Why good people do bad things
Industry-led aged care
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Your Say
Open letter to politicians about privatisation of ACAT
Aged care residents reveal which centres are the worst to live in
Open letter to the Royal Commission regarding ACAT privatisation
Building a Humane Future in Robertson
Crisis? What crisis?
Letter to PM regarding my Aunt's care
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Legal Issues Column
Can legal action bring change when aged care regulations do not?
Legal redress for aged care residents
Do we have an aged care gulag?
New law to criminalise elder abuse for the Australian Capital Territory
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Resident Committees
No mandated staff/resident ratios, no transparency, no research
All residents of aged-care homes need protection
Dreading aged care
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