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Book launch: The Hen That Laid The Golden Omelette

By Alice B on Thursday, February 13, 2014

Retired-nurse Barbara Potter AM and artist Barbara Davison share more in common than their birth name.

Both are passionate about maintaining the dignity of people with dementia.

Coming soon: The Australian Aged Care Rating System

By Alice B on Thursday, February 13, 2014

Aged Care Online Managing Director Ben Hannemann is the proud co-founder of Australia’s first quantified rating system for residential aged care, The Australian Aged Care Rating System (ACRS).

Mr Hannemann has partnered with Ansell Strategic Managing Director Cam Ansell and Millennium Aged Care Placement Consultants Managing Director Dana Sawyer in developing the new ratings system.

Australians with dementia deserve better end-of-life care

By Alice B on Wednesday, February 12, 2014

A survey released today shows an alarming disparity between the wishes of people with dementia and their actual experience in residential or community care as they near the end of their lives.

The report identified a number of barriers to the quality of end-of-life care for people with dementia, including lack of advance care plans, inadequate pain management, a hard-to-navigate palliative care and hospices system and poor understanding of legal options amongst clinicians and aged care staff.

Aged Care Employee Wins Palliative Care Award

By Samantha L on Friday, November 29, 2013