Aged Care

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to a resident during a visit to a Goodwin Retirement Village in Canberra, Wednesday, September 12, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Cruel reality hits home

There is a reckoning due in this nation. Our aged-care system is broken, eroded by failures and aided by a collective delusion.

RICK MORTON

ExclusiveHealth

Anne McMenamin with her 95yo father John who lives in The Lodge, an Eldercare facility in Wayville SA.

Begging for water on death’s door

John McMenamin lives in one of Adelaide’s better nursing homes but his family has taken drastic steps just to ensure he’s fed.

RICK MORTON

Wall Street Journal

The interior view of the Glenner Town Square facility in Chula Vista, CA on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. At Glenner Town Square in San Diego there are old-fashioned rotary phones, and typewriters instead of computers. The movie theater plays Jimmy Stewart flicks. The 9,000-square-foot indoor village is surrounded by 11 storefronts, frozen in time. They are meant to represent the era from roughly 1953 to 1961 when the 80-something Alzheimer’s patients who come here were in the prime of their life. Glenner Square is the country’s first memory-care facility built entirely around the idea of reminiscence therapy, a therapy that uses prompts from a person’s past - such as music, movies and photographers - to elicit memories and encourage conversation and activities.(Photo by Sandy Huffaker fr Wall Street Journal)YHEALTH52767 Published Credit: Sandy Huffaker for The Wall Street Journal

How to do aged care right

Amid horror stories about the treatment of older Australians, the US has opened its first memory-care facility to take dementia patients back to the prime of life.

Sumathi Reddy

Wall Street Journal

Exercise class in the courtyard at Glenner Town Square facility in Chula Vista, CA on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. At Glenner Town Square in San Diego there are old-fashioned rotary phones, and typewriters instead of computers. The movie theater plays Jimmy Stewart flicks. The 9,000-square-foot indoor village is surrounded by 11 storefronts, frozen in time. They are meant to represent the era from roughly 1953 to 1961 when the 80-something Alzheimer’s patients who come here were in the prime of their life. Glenner Square is the country’s first memory-care facility built entirely around the idea of reminiscence therapy, a therapy that uses prompts from a person’s past - such as music, movies and photographers - to elicit memories and encourage conversation and activities.(Photo by Sandy Huffaker fr Wall Street Journal)YHEALTH52767 Published Credit: Sandy Huffaker for The Wall Street Journal

Reminiscence therapy at home

Reminiscence therapy can be done at home with dementia patients, using old photos, music and other props.

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An old lady's hands in generic photo for Aged Care.

Improving care to cost $3.5bn

It would cost up to $3.5bn a year to grant aged-care staff a 15 per cent pay rise and boost contact time with residents.

RICK MORTON

Inquirer

PM Scott Morrison talking to Wendy and Ray White who are recipients of in-home care, with Lynne McKeough while visiting Louise Josephs home in Canberra, with Minister for Indigenous Health, Senior Australians and Aged Care Ken Wyatt , Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance Senator Zed Seselja. Picture Kym Smith

Aged-care system terminal

Providers say the industry will collapse without urgent reform.

RICK MORTON

National Affairs

Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Sydney, Friday, December 22, 2017. (AAP Image/David Moir) NO ARCHIVING

‘Take your own advice and go’

PoliticsNow: Concetta Fierravanti-Wells tells Malcolm Turnbull to stop commenting on federal politics.

Greg Brown and Rosie Lewis

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