With more and more wound care taking place in a community setting, we sit down with Jan Rice, a wound care expert, to find out more about effective wound management in the real world of aged care.
Almost every time I visit my Nan in residential aged care, she is served a small ham and cheese sandwich on white bread for lunch. This is often her substitute option for a meal she doesn’t want to eat such as the weekly party pies and sausage rolls.
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A recent comment posted on the Aged Care Advocacy Facebook Group raised an important question about family members gaining access to an aged care resident’s doctor’s contact details. The question posed was: “Is the daughter of an aged care resident allowed to ask the aged care facility for their mother’s doctor’s contact details? Is the...
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Following the death of home care recipient Ann Marie Smith, police have raided the business that employed the woman who is currently facing manslaughter charges.
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