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Consumer?directed care for older Australians: Are resources identified on the Web adequate to support decisions about home?based care packages? ABSTRACT Consumer?directed care (CDC) was intr... Read more
Consumer?directed care for older Australians: Are resources identified on the Web adequate to support decisions about home?based care packages? ABSTRACT Consumer?directed care (CDC) was intr... Read more
Social Participation in the Daily Lives of Frail Older Adults: Types of Participation and Influencing Factors ABSTRACT Objectives: The advantages of social participation for older adults ar... Read more
ABSTRACT This article reports the findings of a qualitative investigation of the way people find meaning through caregiving. It draws on the results of in-depth interviews with 37 informal c... Read more
EXTRACT Day 6 into the third series of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety involved another panel full of aged care workers from the sector talking about the need for staf... Read more
EXTRACT The introduction of legislation establishing a powerful independent Ageing and Discrimination Commissioner in NSW is a historic occasion for Australia, Premier Gladys Berejiklian say... Read more
EXTRACT Merle Mitchell is correct (‘‘I live in aged care but it is not home: an insider’s story’’, May 11-12). In entering government-subsidised residential aged care, by choice or otherwise... Read more
ABSTRACT Societies in Europe and around the world are facing an unprecedented ageing of the population. This situation raises policy questions regarding how to ensure the inclusion of older... Read more
EXTRACT Loneliness was in the news in 2018 with both the results of the BBC’s Loneliness Experiment and the launch of the Government’s first loneliness strategy. Research by the British Red... Read more
EXTRACT This paper outlines how demographic, social and economic pressures will impact on aged care in Australia. It has been prepared by Dr David Cullen with the support of staff of the Off... Read more
EXTRACT The funding and regulation of aged care services is predominantly the role of the Australian Government although all three levels of government in Australia local, state and federal... Read more
EXTRACT For many women, home is a provisional place. This has long been true. Violence, dispossession and poverty are not new. What is recent is the increase in the number of women over the... Read more
ABSTRACT This briefing paper by Foundations highlights the fact that the more choice and control older people can exercise, the better the outcomes in terms of health and wellbeing. In a sur... Read more
ABSTRACT Dementia is a leading cause of death in the developed world. A number of modifiable risk factors for dementia have been identified, yet lay knowledge on dementia risk is limited. A... Read more
ABSTRACT Services for people with dementia and their families in England are commissioned with a lack of integration and an inconsistent approach creating gaps in service provision. Therefor... Read more
