Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Commissioner Briggs raises idea of additional national agreement to set down responsibility for health services in residential care during panel with State health officials by The Weekly Source December 14, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Senior Counsel calls on Commonwealth, States and Territories and providers to join forces to fix failings in interface between aged care and health care – as Counsel Assisting “reconsiders” propositions by The Weekly Source December 14, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial “We don’t have a clue”: Australia five to 10 years behind other countries on collecting data in residential care, geriatric medicine experts tell Commission by The Weekly Source December 13, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Provider-driven market has failed to deliver health care to residents, state health officials say – but funding, legislative and information sharing reform needed to incentivise change by The Weekly Source December 13, 2019
Topic - Editorial Government Policy Department of Health representatives dispute Government clearinghouse data that 9% of aged care residents didn’t see a GP in 2016/17 – Senior Counsel calls out DoH for failing to identify underlying need for GPs by The Weekly Source December 13, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Melbourne aged care resident spending one-and-a-half hours on bus to visit specialists by The Weekly Source December 12, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial “They were just not equipped”: Canberra woman says RN in charge of pain medication for dying mother was working across multiple facilities by The Weekly Source December 12, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Panel of aged care facility managers tells Commission they can’t get specialists to attend facilities – Commissioner Briggs weighs up whether they have “moral” obligation to visit by The Weekly Source December 12, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Ageing Only one resident out of 1,200 with an ACFI claim for palliative care: in-house palliative care nurse practitioner says providers can’t provide similar service without funding and regulatory reform by The Weekly Source December 12, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Ageing Red tape preventing aged care and home care recipients from accessing restorative care, rehabilitation medicine expert argues – and funding for rehabilitation should be tied to residents by The Weekly Source December 12, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Aged care facilities transferring residents to hospital to protect themselves from litigation, Sydney paramedic tells Commission – Commissioner Briggs raises idea of whistleblowing system for health staff to report substandard care by The Weekly Source December 11, 2019
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial Former Department of Health staffer says mother who had dementia suffered from unnecessary hospital transfers – Counsel Assisting questions if hospital-like services should be provided in residential care by The Weekly Source December 11, 2019
