On-the-ground support for CHSP providers
Home support providers should seek out and get to know the well-informed support and development staff on hand in their...
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‘I am Isla, full stop’
“They don’t make them like Isla anymore,” says the voiceover of the trailer of a new documentary. Isla’s Way chronicles...
More tips to help older people with medicine use
Here, in the last of a two-part series, Dr Nirvana Luckraj shares more medication management advice – firstly, how to...
Tips to help older people with medication use
The risks associated with medication usage increase as people age. Here – in the first of a two-part series –...
Senior tap dancers enjoy new lease on life
Tap dancing is for everyone and can be customised to meet different needs and ages, writes septuagenarian Christine Sykes. Faced...
Care managers ‘must be central’ in new aged care program
Care managers must play a central role in the new, redesigned home care system, a forum on aged care reform...
Royal Commission urged to declare war on wait lists
Access to home care has been identified as one of the systemic failures of aged care in final submissions to...
How a pandemic changed home care
As the royal commission opened hearings into home care this week, it heard that COVID-19 would likely reposition home care...
Warning as cyber criminals target aged care sector
A international cyber attack which resulted in the theft and release of personal data from an aged care provider has...
Improving telehealth-lessons from the UK
Improving digital networks, access and interoperability are required to maximise telehealth services, an international expert says. United Kingdom-based Dr Malcolm...
Connecting grandparents during a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in an impossibly short time, writes Deb Howcroft. I was prepared for self-isolation...
Providers step up in COVID response
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has expressed concerns that older people may be suffering as a result of over-zealous COVID-19 restrictions,...