What is it like to live with hearing loss? Many older people go years before they do anything about their hearing. Today we talk with audiologist Marguerite and her client Rosalie.
Texture-modified foods are essential to the health and wellbeing of aged care residents, and with a little bit of effort - they can be just as enticing as dishes in their original forms.
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The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission rejects claims in today’s The Australian newspaper that the Commission did not act appropriately in relation to Victorian aged care providers that failed to meet required safety standards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in that state. Commissioner Janet Anderson PSM said the Aged Care Quality and...
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One claim we have heard lately is that staff working in aged care have only five or six minutes in the morning on average to prepare residents before breakfast. In that time they must shower, dry, dress, and toilet residents, and help them make their way to the dining room. Can this possibly be true? We spoke...
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