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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Two former prison inmates have been moved to a Sydney nursing home. The men, who are both living with advanced dementia, have been at the Garrawarra Centre in Sydney’s Waterfall “for some time without any serious incident”, according to a spokesperson for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. The patients are “low risk, particularly in light of their...
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Hospital systems and paramedics across the country have consistently been under the pump due to hospital ramping crises – causing patients to wait excruciatingly long hours to get into an Emergency Department (ED) or be seen by a clinician. That’s what happened to this older Adelaide woman who was forced to wait 10 hours for treatment at a hospital in the city’s northern suburbs.
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