The Importance of Influenza Vaccination – Aged Care

This is Part 2 of Leah Bisiani’s Person Centred Care series – Read Part 1 here Tom Kitwood, the pioneer of Person Centred Care, states that:
 “The malignant social psychology damages the client as much as the disease process”. Older people and people living with dementia are often seen as less human, lacking sensation, emotion, and spirit, where... Read More

With more than half of the people living in residential aged care having a diagnosis of dementia, and the real percentage likely to be far higher due to the prevalence of undetected dementia, the commissioners determined that “dementia care should be core business for aged care services”. Lee-Fay Low, Associate Professor, Ageing and Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, told HelloCare that she also has concerns about the quality of dementia care being delivered in Australia, both from what she has read in the media, but also from her own observations in the field.  Read More

With the simple ‘pass or fail’ metrics of the aged care regulators' quality standards as the only current government-approved indicator of care quality, organisations that provide exceptional service receive no distinction from those that barely meet the minimum standards of care. Read More