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What Makes a Good Aged Care Home?

One of the deepest fears about moving into aged care, or moving a loved one into aged care, can be the fear of making the wrong choice. This is a completely understandable apprehension, often based on recent media reports and the recent review into standards in aged...

What Costs are Involved in Aged Care Homes?

How much does a nursing home cost in Australia? It’s an expected question for anyone looking into residential aged care support, whether for themselves, a parent or a friend. Residential aged care fees can seem a little complicated at first, so we thought we’d break...

Navigating Assessments with My Aged Care

My Aged Care, ACATs and assessments – what’s it all about? Knowing where to seek support and what the different terms mean can be a little confusing when you first set out to access aged care in Australia, so we thought we’d gather some of the most common questions in...

Key Elements of Infection Prevention and Control In Aged Care

The health and wellbeing of our residents is at the forefront of everything we do. Here are the essential elements of infection prevention and control precautions in aged care.  What is infection control in aged care? Infection control in an aged care setting involves...

How to Empower Residents in Aged Care

An empowered person has choice, control and influence over the decisions and events in their life. All too often, it can feel that as we get older we lose some aspects of choice or control in our lives. Someone entering residential aged care for the very first time...