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Digital health breakthrough targets hospital transfer risks for aged care residents
A new Digital Health Summary developed by Monash University’s National Centre for Healthy Ageing is set to transform aged care transfers, closing critical information gaps and reducing risks when residents move between facilities and hospitals.
Navigating compliance effectively – QPS Benchmarking is leveraging software for heightened provider impact
“We’re hearing we’re saving the time of two to three staff members per quarter, so they can be freed up to make the provision of care amazing in other needed areas.” As regulation creep increases, leveraging excellence in software and human skill is critical for provider performance.
What clinical governance means for care partners
Clinical governance in aged care isn’t just for managers or clinicians. Under the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and the new Act, care partners are central to safety, risk management, and participant outcomes.
From Woodstock to inner city Melbourne – psychedelic-assisted therapy trial shares positive results
Australia’s first clinical trial of psychedelic-assisted therapy has shown promising results for people living with advanced, life-threatening illness. Conducted at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, the psilocybin-assisted therapy reduced anxiety and depression, while improving quality of life and spiritual wellbeing for palliative patients.
Mouth matters: Humility can help secure oral hygiene excellence for providers
Highly trained front-line staff may be best positioned to provide feedback for improvements to systemic oral care. In navigating routine high-quality oral health in care plans, humility to uncomfortable feedback is worthwhile for all providers.
From pills to pathways: The global dementia care shift
Global experts call for dementia care beyond medication, focusing on well-being, inclusion and leadership to transform aged care.
UNSW project puts people with dementia at the centre of aged care reform
When Theresa Flavin first stepped into advocacy for dementia and aged care, she noticed a pattern that was as troubling as it was familiar. “In research, older people and those with dementia were kept at arm’s length,” she recalls. “It felt like the system was built around us, not for us.” Diagnosed with younger onset […]
Aged care providers unite to lift data literacy in wound care
As another coronial report into a wound care fatality shows, data literacy in wound prevention and management remains a pressing need in aged care. To address this, eight providers have come together under a sector-wide innovation grant to develop and embed data capability among staff, using routinely collected data to strengthen pressure injury and wound […]
Hobart wound care fatality a reminder to aged care executives of need for robust and resilient systems of care
More than three years after an 87-year-old woman passed away, a coroner has ruled that both systemic and human error contributed to her death. A Tasmanian aged care home failed to adequately treat a pressure wound that had become infected. In February 2022, the woman died at Hobart’s Fairway Rise facility after her sacral wound […]
Aged care CEO pens a scathing open letter to ACQSC
Aged care CEO slams the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, calling out weak regulation, double standards, and risks to residents’ safety.
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