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Taking the temperature of nurses in the aged care workforce

As a federal government taskforce ponders how to improve the system, a new study focuses on nurses in two Victorian residential aged care homes, and how they feel about and operate in their workplaces.

Medicine and health

Fur the greater good: The healing power of pets

Can a hug with a dog or a cuddle from a cat cure loneliness?

Medicine and health

Slowing the superbug antibiotic apocalypse

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria causes 700,000 deaths annually, but there are strategies we can use to slow the rapid rise of these superbugs.

Medicine and health

How to choose a legal decision-maker as you get older

Someone who is self-aware may be a better choice then your nearest and dearest when it comes to enacting your will and preferences as you age.

Politics and society

International Women’s Day 2022: Breaking the bias

Monash Education celebrates the stories of five people nominated by senior leadership for their work in #breakingthebias both at work and home.

Celebrating women

The urgent need to train aged care staff to report and prevent sexual assault

There are about 50 sexual assaults in Australian aged care homes every week, but staff are expected to assess the severity and impact of incidents without training.

Medicine and health

The acid test: The case for quick and accurate mobile point-of-care COVID testing

The lack of investment in the development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices in Australia, most importantly a COVID-19 nucleic acid test, is a public policy failure.

Medicine and health

Flying solo: How storytelling is helping us better understand loneliness in later life

Case studies on ageing have been turned into creative narratives, with the help of Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Josephine Wilson.

Politics and society

The jury's in: Outsiders weigh in on acquired brain injury rehabilitation

A "citizens' jury" can offer fresh eyes on an enduring problem in healthcare and public health, particularly in areas that usually struggle for ongoing funding.

Medicine and health

Protecting the elderly

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.

Medicine and health

In lockdown, rethinking the lockup

The COVID-19 crisis has raised the question of whether low-risk offenders should be imprisoned.

Politics and society

Preventing nursing home suicides

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.

Medicine and health

Tales of neglect

The aged care royal commission's interim report paints a picture of a system in deep crisis. Its recommendations for action have some merit, but won't address what are underlying systemic problems.

Medicine and health

'It felt like a prison'

Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.

Medicine and health

Sore spot in aged care

Using pressure injury rates to target underperforming nursing homes is critical to improving Australia’s aged care system.

Medicine and health

Restraint of the aged

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.

Medicine and health

Too late for the old

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.

Featured

Where the heart is

When it comes to people’s homes, neither Di Winkler nor Dan McKenna are prepared to accept the status quo. They're challenging traditional housing models for a greater social good.

Monash Life

Hunting superbugs among the aged

Nursing homes are coming under the spotlight in the ongoing antimicrobial resistance war.

Medicine and health

Shining a light on disability housing

Monash alumna Dr Di Winkler is determined to change the systems that move young people with serious disabilities into nursing homes.

Politics and society

Medicine and pharmacy bridge the divide

A thunderstorm asthma scenario was the starting point of an innovative collaborative care initiative.

Medicine and health

Dignity of risk – when living better means living longer

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.

Medicine and health