Improving home support workers’ training and conditions has been the most important step in reforming New Zealand’s community aged care system over the last 12 years.
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Home care sector gets to know quality watchdog
Six months after the Quality Agency assumed responsibility for quality in community care and some in the sector are still seeking proof it won’t simply impose a residential-based framework, while the agency says it acknowledges community care is different.
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Latest News
Sector leaders acknowledged in Australia Day Honours
Dementia and aged care campaigners were among those recognised in the 2015 Australia Day Honours list, while best-selling children’s author Jackie French was named Senior Australian of the Year.
Home care sector gets to know quality watchdog
Six months after the Quality Agency assumed responsibility for quality in community care and some in the sector are still seeking proof it won’t simply impose a residential-based framework, while the agency says it acknowledges community care is different.
Australian aged care exports to India ‘almost impossible’
Notwithstanding an Australian-Indian free trade agreement on the horizon, the outlook for Australian aged care providers considering setting up in India have been described as ‘high volume, low margin’.
Royal Commission: putting elder abuse front and centre
Seniors rights advocates in Victoria are calling for the state’s Royal Commission into Family Violence to include older people in its deliberations, given elder abuse is most commonly perpetrated by family members.
This week’s news you might have missed
Friday’s news wrap includes: Peak bodies meet new minister; seniors wanted for social connectedness survey; minister and state peak CEO debate the ceased payroll-tax subsidy; and competition to encourage creative dementia therapies.
Aged care training courses under fresh scrutiny
Almost 50 per cent of aged care providers said less than half of Cert III in Aged Care graduates had the required skills to be employed, an SA Government review has found, adding to long-standing sector concerns about the variable quality of care worker training.
CDC: balancing rights and obligations
In AAA online’s regular legal column, Julie McStay responds to a reader’s question: When will a provider’s duty of care override a consumer’s right to choose?
Special report: the rise of the reviewer
With a flurry of review and ratings sites recently launched or in development, aged care is now firmly a sector at the mercy of consumer opinion. While greater information is welcome, these sites raise issues around transparency and verification, and for providers the question of how to respond.
Dementia on-screen under the spotlight
Film and television have taken on an increasingly important role in shaping public awareness and opinion on dementia, an Australian film critic and writer tells AAA.
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