A good option is to move a parent into a community of connected like-minded people – either a traditional retirement village or one of the fast-growing lifestyle communities.
The regulator should explicitly require all criminal incidents involving aged care residents to be reported to police immediately.
Almost 33 per cent of aged care residents infected with the virus died during Victoria’s second wave. In NSW’s current outbreak,the figure is closer to 11 per cent.
After four months of separation despite only living streets apart,Barbara Olliff,97,and her daughter Judy Christian were reunited on Monday morning.
The family of a Bendigo grandmother say their mother’s aged care facility and treating GP are responsible for her death from an infected blister which eventually killed her.
Aged care advocates say visits should be allowed at all nursing homes in Victoria if people coming to see fully immunised residents have also had a double dose.
A country as wealthy as ours should be able to provide safe and affordable supported housing to elderly people in their final years.
Visitors to residential aged care facilities could be required to wear masks and undergo rapid antigen testing in a plan to allow friends and families to see loved ones as soon as possible.
The number of people living with dementia - the biggest killer of women in Australia - will double by 2058,putting pressure on budgets and carers.
The contract you choose can affect more than what you pay when you move into a village and how much you get back after you leave.
More than 90 per cent of residential aged care workers have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose after a slow start.