Residents interviewing aged care staff – are we there yet?

1 January will bring significant changes to the calculation of pension entitlement. It will also bring serious changes to the way in which the former home (and any rent) will be treated. At the moment there are two sets of rules, one for residents who entered care before 1 January 2016 and one for those... Read More

I originally wrote this post on ideapod called “Who are we on the cusp of death?” I have recently been contemplating mortality, the meaning of life and purpose. We all do, of course. Three events are uneasy reminders of my fragile mortality: Leaving the corporate world to pursue (as yet undetermined) entrepreneurial, creative and philanthropic... Read More

The Governor-General was handed the report of the aged care royal commission on Friday. It will be made public in the coming week. Overlaying its considerations has been Australia’s 909 deaths from COVID-19, more than two-thirds of them (685) people in aged care facilities. It has to be recognised that COVID accounts for an extremely small share of deaths in Australia, and even deaths of senior citizens. 127,082 Australians aged 70 and over died in 2019. To date 851 in that age group have died of COVID. Some good might come from these sad deaths if they prompted us to think about where we are likely to die. Read More