How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

The importance of person-centered dementia care has been brought into even sharper focus by the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the issue, Prof Dawn Brooker, Director of the University of Worcester Association for Dementia Studies UK, will present on the topic, at Dementia Australia's National Symposium Series next week. Read More

  The Federal Minister for Health has said he “would not hear a word” against aged care staff, while the Victorian Premier has admitted he would not let his mother live in an aged care home affected by COVID-19, as the escalating aged care crisis in Melbourne causes emotions to rise. In his briefing today,... Read More

  Dedication and desperation have defined the role of aged care providers and their devoted workers in doing the best they can to protect and save their residents from coronavirus in Victoria. Dedication is the bottom line of care, but desperation has too often also been the reality, as COVID-19 infection and quarantine decimated local... Read More