Aromatherapy has be shown to be beneficial for people in palliative care and their families. Learn more about how essential oils and massage can help people.
The Health Services Union is launching a ‘work value’ case in the Fair Work Commission, with the aim of delivering aged care workers a wage increase of at least $5 an hour – the equivalent of around a 25 per cent increase. The HSU will argue working in the aged care sector has become...
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If you gave people a choice – to die comfortably at home or in hospital – you would find that overwhelmingly, people would choose to be at “home”. And yet many elderly people are dying in hospital emergency rooms – in a way that they may have not wanted to go. Nowadays the definition of...
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Home care workers often build close bonds with the clients they care for, and the work is often personal and intimate. So, when a new request is made that seems a stretch too far, how does a carer respond? Have you or someone you know experienced this?
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