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Aged care residents are “very lonely”, royal commission hears

  One of the nation’s leading dementia experts and a widely respected dementia advocate addressed the royal commission on Friday, explaining the challenges they see in the aged care sector and dementia care, and the solutions they propose. Professor Henry Brodaty, Scientia Professor at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New... Read More

The critically ill should be allowed to die at home

People who are critically ill, and their families, would often prefer to stay at home in the final weeks of their life, and are likely to receive better care, according to a new report from the UK. The report estimates that shifting more care to home or community care in the final three months of... Read More

Why hospital investigations often fail to prevent future harm

One in ten Australians suffer harm during their hospital stay, yet patient safety investigations often fail to prevent similar incidents from happening again. What’s going wrong, and how can hospitals do better? Read More
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