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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Politicians and advocates are pushing for amendments to the Commonwealth’s Criminal Code and Federal laws to allow doctors to consult with patients about voluntary assisted dying (VAD) via telehealth appointments – a means most terminally ill people in rural and remote areas rely on.
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Whose responsibility is it to check that aged care facilities are maintaining adequate standard of care? In Australia, it belongs to the regulatory bodies in charge of aged care accreditation. Government accreditation is meant to ensure that the aged care facilities that older Australians are living in are up to scratch and providing a minimum...
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