How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

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... Read More

  Clashes between Newmarch House management and various government departments about who had the authority to make decisions and resolve disputes inhibited the aged care facility’s ability to cope with the outbreak, the Royal Commission has heard. “Over the course of the outbreak, there has been a frustrating level of dysfunction in the collaboration between... Read More

We asked some of our older relatives, isolated and in aged care, how they were feeling during this uncertain time. “I feel purposeless.” “I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lonely.” It makes you feel “unwanted”, “fearful for the future” and “scared.” Not only do emotions speak for themselves, science firmly agrees that social connection... Read More