Aged care providers need to be open about the end-of-life services they can and can’t provide and refer elsewhere when necessary, writes Larissa McIntyre.
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Noticeboard: Sundale Nambour to undergo $250 million upgrade
Also in this wrap: RSL LifeCare opens high-tech facility; BaptistCare opens $11m redevelopment; and new facility to provide a home for homeless and disadvantaged.
Noticeboard: Anglicare building integrated community
Also in this story: WA facilities changing hands; and Rosewood gets redevelopment green light.
Noticeboard: Southern Cross Care SA & NT names chief
Also in this wrap: executive team for merged trio in WA is announced; Baptistcare appoints new head of aged care; and a new director announced for HammondCare’s palliative care centre.
Noticeboard: Baptcare opens new dementia wing
Also: HammondCare receives approval for new dementia village; and BaptistCare formally opens new Kellyville facility.
Providers turn to TV and mass advertising as competition to attract customers heats up
Aged care providers across the country are ramping up public awareness campaigns as consumer choice takes hold and landmark changes in home care come into effect this month.
New campaign says thanks to aged care staff working over Christmas
A new social media campaign celebrates the tens of thousands of aged care staff who will be working over the Christmas break providing care to Australia’s seniors.
BaptistCare tops aged care IT awards with platform facilitating consumer control
An aged care provider’s website that enables clients to customise their home care package has taken out top honours at the sector’s annual technology awards last night.
Noticeboard: latest expansions, openings in aged care
In this story: BaptistCare opens Orana Centre, Kellyville phase two; construction starts on Catholic Healthcare’s Ipswich centre; Helping Hand opens $6 million re-development.
Excellence in aged care hospitality on show at annual awards
An aged care worker who has become known for her innovative approach to making mealtimes fun and interesting for residents is among those recognised in the sector’s annual hospitality awards.
Salvation Army reports positive benefits from dementia care model
As Dementia Awareness Month comes to a close, a leading aged care provider shares early results from a new model of care showing reduced isolation among residents living with the disease.
Noticeboard: two aged care leaders step down
The not-for-profit aged care sector will lose two of its long-serving leaders, as Lucy Morris resigns as Baptistcare CEO and Mike Rungie steps down as ACH Group CEO.
Noticeboard: Latest expansions, openings
In this story: Green light for $300 million development; BaptistCare invests $10 million in Niola Centre; Southern Cross Care’s new development on track; Japara’s Bayview opens.
Leveraging technology: a provider case study
BaptistCare’s overarching technology strategy shifts the focus away from backend functions and towards the provision of care.
