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.
“The quality of care in aged care facilities or retirement homes is as much about facilitating a homely experience and preservation of identity for the incoming resident, as the quality and cost of the physical environment alone”. The ‘Great Australian Dream’ of owning your own home is a mindset embedded into Australian culture that we embody...
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Over the last 6 months, I have been travelling around Queensland speaking to older people about aged care services, and how to access My Aged Care to organise these services. What I am consistently surprised by is the confusion that exists across the board in this group, especially when it comes to the question of “packages”. On...
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Both are valid questions and only one, really, that can be answered by those who were a part of the aged care industry before it was an industry. I don’t believe that care has ever left the industry and will preface this article with the belief that aged care nurses are amongst some of the...
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