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The Aged Care Act introduces a Statement of Rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, ensuring culturally safe, trauma-aware care. While $2.9B in funding supports reforms, barriers like limited access in remote areas and historical mistrust need ongoing work.
A healthy ageing approach can prevent and even reverse frailty, significantly compressing morbidity, helping to improve quality of life and reducing the need for sustained complex clinical care.
Handing out new manuals and hoping for compliance no longer works. New research reveals that strategic, systems-level leadership and dedicated knowledge brokers are vital to turning clinical evidence into everyday aged care practice.
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.
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