Ideas & Society Program: The Human Crisis in Australia’s Aged Care Homes

It is more than a year since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety published its eight volume Report, yet the crisis in Australia’s Aged Care Homes is greater now than at any time in the sector’s history. In the first two months of this year more than 650 residents in these homes have died after contracting COVID-19.  

The Ideas & Society program will offer an outstanding panel with a variety of perspectives — to discuss what is now happening inside Australia’s aged care homes, what are the reasons for the crisis, and what are the possible ways forward. 

Event online: The Human Crisis in Australia’s Aged Care Homes

When: Tuesday 5^th April, 5pm – 6.30pm   

Register here: https://now.latrobe/3tL3ZFZ

The panel will be hosted by Professor Yvonne Wells, Head of the Lincoln Centre for Research on Ageing at La Trobe University and includes discussion with:

• Emeritus Professor Robert Manne, Ideas & Society Program Convenor
• Linda Mellors, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Regis Aged Care 
• Dr Sarah Russell, Director Aged Care Matters
• Professor Joe Ibrahim, Head of Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at Monash University
• Melissa Davey, Chief Medical Reporter at The Guardian
• Professor Sarah Holland-Batt, Professor, poet, advocate for aged care matters

Search for a residential aged care home:

• Aged care in the ACT
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• Aged care in the Northern Territory
• Aged care in Queensland
• Aged care in South Australia
• Aged care in Tasmania
• Aged care in Victoria
• Aged care in Western Australia