The COVID-19 death toll in aged-care homes is spiking. Protocols need to urgently be put in place to prevent infection, but there also needs to be detailed plans for when an outbreak occurs.
Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents' access to mental heath services is a good start.
Regulating physical restraint of the elderly in nursing homes is a step in the right direction, but more still needs to be done to educate the sector on alternatives.
By the time the aged care royal commission's recommendations lead to improvements in our nursing homes, four cohorts of residents will have died. Here's why.
Society’s perception of aged care must change from being a place of protection to a place where people actually live – and that means more autonomy for residents.
Around 140 Australian nursing-home residents have taken their own lives between 2000 and 2013, our new study shows
A new study aims to identify periods of increased sleepiness to reduce the risk of fatigue-related accidents on our roads.
Rising dementia in the nursing home population means violent behaviours will increasingly be an issue.
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