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Topic - Aged Care

Larger facilities best equipped to provide health care to aged care residents, Sydney emergency medicine director tells Commission – and there is scope for specialist aged care medical workforce

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Commissioner Briggs raises idea of additional national agreement to set down responsibility for health services in residential care during panel with State health officials

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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

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“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

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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

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Melbourne aged care resident spending one-and-a-half hours on bus to visit specialists

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“They were just not equipped”: Canberra woman says RN in charge of pain medication for dying mother was working across multiple facilities

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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