A Victorian aged care provider says it is cutting back on staff due to financial pressures, despite the fact the sector is facing its most serious health challenge in more than a century. Not-for-profit provider Royal Freemasons Aged Care Facilities has been forced to cut back staff hours to ensure the organisation’s ongoing financial sustainability,...
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A few months ago, a Facebook post that was all too real to me went viral. A nurse in Queensland, Caitlin Brassington, wrote about her frustrations when being disrespected as “just a nurse”. Sadly, she is not the only one who has experienced this – as evidenced by the 27 000 likes and nearly 5000...
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When considering an aged care home for your friends or family, what is important to you? Are you interested in finding out about the rates of malnutrition, pressure sores, and use of physical restraint? Or are you more interested in finding out how caring the staff are, cleanliness, or about the quality of the food?...
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