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.
As more than 500 retirement living leaders gathered at the Gold Coast, a test of the industry’s pulse reveals that national occupancy nears capacity and senior Australians face a shortage of age-appropriate housing. The annual National Retirement Living Summit wrapped up in Queensland earlier this week, with the industry’s heavyweights recommitting to the Retirement Living...
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We have heard stories of rationing of continence pads to three per day, with extra pads being kept in locked away in cupboards, and requests for more denied. Aged care staff revealed their experiences with the rationing. Aged care worker Wayne Beasley said, “People would get an allocation of three. There was a pad room, and...
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Please ensure you have read the published Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this article, and have located the relevant appendices. “If you told someone with dementia a thousand times and he still doesn’t understand, then it is not the person with dementia who is the slow learner.” Basic Models of care 1....
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