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Home swipes resident’s medicine

The aged-care royal commission has been told of patient neglect by home residents.

RICK MORTON

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Maryann Curry, former Chief Nursing Officer for Estia Health.

Exodus amid aged care turmoil

Two executives at a leading aged-care provider have left the $600m company as the industry feels the royal commission strain.

RICK MORTON

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Shareholder meeting for Ardent Leisure Group (owner of Dreamworld) at which shareholder Ariadne is agitating for two board seats. Gary Weiss talks to shareholders. Picture Chris Pavlich for The Australian

Estia ups profit, cuts guidance

Estia has increased its first-half profit but downgraded its full-year guidance amid the ongoing aged care inquiry.

Alex Druce

ExclusiveHealth

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Blueprint for aged-care sector

Funding for high-care nursing home residents would be doubled under a plan being examined by the federal government.

RICK MORTON

AnalysisBernard Salt

02/12/2018: Local retirees (L-R) John Brennan, 67, Stuart Wright, 58, and Kathleen Mastrogiacomo, 70, at Clovelly Bowls Club on Sunday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

The rise, fall and rise of retirees

Over the next decade the baby-boomer generation shifts wholly into retirement. Prepare for a massive shift in consumer and property markets and business.

Bernard Salt

Health

Royal Commissioner Richard Tracey is seen at the first public hearing in the federal government's Royal Commission for Aged Care Quality and Safety at the Roma Mitchell Commonwealth Law Court Building in Adelaide, Friday, January 18, 2019. (AAP Image/Kelly Barnes) NO ARCHIVING

Aged-care providers on notice

Aged-care providers have been warned by the royal commission into the sector not to stand in the way of staff giving evidence.

RICK MORTON

National Affairs

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‘Fears for aged care’s future’

One commissioner said there’s a “rising torrent of concern” that aged care is faltering, as the Royal Commission begins.

RICK MORTON

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GP exodus from aged care homes

Doctors have blamed falling numbers of GPs seeing patients in nursing homes on poorly trained nurses and low Medicare rebates.

RICK MORTON

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Justice Richard Tracey, Federal Court (Melbourne).

Brawl over ‘doping’ of elderly

Tens of thousands of cases of abuse and neglect will be revealed at the aged-care royal commission when it opens this Friday.

RICK MORTON

The Times

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

Exercise may delay dementia

A hormone produced by exercise may slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease and delay the onset of dementia, research suggests.

Rhys Blakely

National Affairs

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Public to have say on aged care

The Royal Commission into aged care has thrown open the doors to public submissions on the day before Christmas.

Rick Morton

National Affairs

PM Scott Morrison after announcing the Next Governor General David Hurley in the Prime Ministers Courtyard, Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Aged care gets $550m boost

The PM will today unveil a $552.9m boost to aged care and the release of 10,000 high-level home-care packages.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Cropped shot of an unrecognizable man leaning on his walking stick

‘You did nothing to help her’

A man has been jailed for leaving his 83-year-old mother to die in squalor while his de facto partner claimed Centrelink carer payments.

TESSA AKERMAN

Inquirer

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

Inquirer

Nightmare that awaits us all

The night before my father was moved from hospital to a nursing home I prayed he would die before the morning.

Anne Barrowclough

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