An inquiry into a Tasmanian mental health facility, called after a family discovered maggots in a resident’s wound on Christmas Day, found care on the day of the incident was “well below acceptable”. But the remainder of the time, care was “satisfactory”, they suggest.
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The AIDS epidemic gained worldwide attention in the 80s, when supporters, campaigners and advocate transformed HIV from an unknown and fatal illness into a treatable condition. HIV protesters in the 1980s took the stance ‘silence=death’, demanding better treatments and successfully rallying for both awareness and new treatments, literally chaining themselves to the doors of pharmaceutical...
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Aged care providers have reported more than 112,000 incidents of substandard care, the royal commission has heard. Monday’s hearing in Sydney also heard of missing medication, a lack of translation services for overseas-born residents, and an elderly woman trying to change her own soiled continence aids. Mr Gray QC, counsel assisting, said residential aged care providers...
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