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Aged Care Staff: Bring Your Expertise And Expect To Learn

An expert who assumes they are there to learn  We know that to do a good job, we need to be trained, or even formed for the work. Formation is an idea that may not be familiar to everyone. If something is being formed, it is being shaped. If a person is being formed for a particular... Read More

Coroner slams facility’s quality of care after investigating resident’s death

A coroner has revealed he was not satisfied with the quality of care a late resident received while living at a Tasmanian aged care facility after he died following a fall that went unnoticed by staff, leaving him lying on the floor to develop hypothermia. Read More

Are Dementia ‘Behaviours’ A Result Of The Way Residents Are Treated?

  One of the simplest and most effective analogies that I have ever heard used to describe dementia was that if you liken a person’s brain to a regular set of traffic lights – the average person processes thoughts in ‘green’ and ‘red,’ but living with dementia is like being stuck in ‘amber.’ Changes in... Read More
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