By Simon Kerrigan, Managing Director | Physiotherapist at Guide Healthcare. In late 2017, I sat with optimism as Professor Kathy Eagar from the University of Wollongong presented her findings on the Aged Care Funding Instrument and proposed alternate models. As a physiotherapist, I’ve been frustrated with the ACFI since commencing my first aged care role in...
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The healthcare company tasked with rolling out the vaccine in Victoria has revealed it was never contracted to administer the vaccine to staff in aged care homes – only to give them leftovers once residents had received theirs. “Was it only ever a vaccine-dregs-for-staff arrangement?”
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The royal commission into aged care continued in Broome on Monday, with a focus on the needs and concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Professor Leon Flicker, a professor of geriatic medicine at the University of Western Australia, told the commission Indigenous Australians often have to leave their country when they move into...
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