#agedcare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agedcare, aggregated by home.social.
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Why can't clinicians override inaccurate algorithm decisions?
By Anne ConnollyIf the government wants a true indication of the level of feeling in the community, perhaps it should read the thousands of comments on Facebook where discussions about the algorithm, long waitlists, and people dying are growing by the day.
#AgedCare #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #RoyalCommissions #Health #CommunityandSociety #OlderPeople #Carers #LawCrimeandJustice #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AnneConnolly
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All roads lead back to the Desiccated Coconut: John fucking Howard!
#australia #ausgov #agedcare #privatisation #monetisingmisery
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Liberals accuse government of backdown on aged care program
By Evelyn ManfieldA government program that helps older people with shopping and transport has been extended, after ongoing uncertainty about its future.
#FederalGovernment #AgedCare #HealthPolicy #OlderPeople #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #EvelynManfield
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Previous migration policies 'taking the p*ss' warns migrant rich-lister
By Nassim KhademThere are divergent views among business leaders, from migrant and non-migrant backgrounds, about the impact of planned immigration cuts and the types of migrants that should be allowed into Australia.
#MigrationPolicy #Immigration #SmallBusinesses #EconomicGrowth #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #HousingConstructionIndustry #PopulationGroups #AgedCare #NassimKhadem
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A fifth of older Australians who contested AI-determined home support funding got more after human review https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/19/aged-care-support-at-home-review-ai-integrated-assessment-tool #AgedCare #Health #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews
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A fifth of older Australians who contested AI-determined home support funding got more after human review
By Melissa Davey Medical editorExclusive: Greens say department of health’s integrated assessment tool is ‘under-assessing’ far more people who may not know how to contest
#Agedcare #Health #Australianpolitics #Australianews #TheGuardian #MelissaDaveyMedicaleditor
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Albanese government reduces home care waitlist by changing counting method
By Anne Connolly, Inga Ting, and Ninah KopelA Four Corners investigation can reveal the number of people waiting for full aged care funding at home stands at almost 154,000 — not 100,000 as officially reported.
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yes, the government is stingy with aged care. They all are. But when you say "it's like Robodebt" then you are quite wrong. Robodebt was a group of senior ministers and public servants conspiring to create an algorithm that invented debts owed by recipients. Knowing that it was false. They then pursued those recipients with debt collectors and hounded a lot of them to death. The fact that not a single offender in this criminal conspiracy has been brought before a court is a scandal of the highest order. Be more careful with your language. #auspol #agedcare
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Yes it’s an awful story on the ABC this morning. I feel very let down by Labor; the current minister for Aged Affairs is only there because of some dirty factional deal. He knows nothing of his new ministry and is unsuited to his post.
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Inside the aged care algorithm deciding support for older Australians
#AgedCare
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The aged care algorithm deciding support for older Australians
By Anne Connolly, Ninah Kopel, and Inga TingUsing expert analysis, evidence revealed by bureaucrats at Senate estimates, and documents obtained under FOI, Four Corners reveals the fullest picture yet of the secretive algorithm affecting the lives of tens of thousands of older Australians and their families.
#AgedCare #OlderPeople #FederalGovernment #AnneConnolly #NinahKopel #IngaTing
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As demand increases for voluntary assisted dying, MP urges improvements
By Meg WhitfieldVoluntary assisted dying gave former Tasmanian midwife Gaye Crick agency, at a time when her terminal illness had stripped much of that away. The state's VAD laws are being reviewed three years after they came into effect.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/voluntary-assisted-dying-tasmania-review/106583592
#DeathandDying #Euthanasia #HealthPolicy #StateandTerritoryParliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AgedCare #MegWhitfield
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Hana and Wanda's unlikely friendship is helping tackle an insidious problem
By Lucy Martin and Jasmine HughesHana Byambadash volunteers with a free program in Perth that aims to stave off old-age loneliness, a pervasive condition that is linked to dementia and other diseases.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-15/social-isolation-among-older-australians-solutions/107023796
#OlderPeople #CommunityandSociety #AgedCare #HumanInterest #Health #MentalHealth #LucyMartin #JasmineHughes
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Takeover of rare remaining community-owned nursing home
By Liam McNallyLocals are concerned about losing control of community-owned Proserpine Nursing Home, which may be taken over by a national operator.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-15/respect-confirms-proserpine-nursing-home-transfer/107037210
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"Retirement villages skew overwhelmingly Pākehā. In the 2023 census, about 83% of New Zealanders aged 65 and over identified as European. But for retirement village residents, that number jumped to a massive 96.9%, with just 1.8% Asian and 0.4% Pacific.
... In Auckland, Pacific elders are both the most likely to have a disability (and at younger ages) and the least likely to receive aged care within a facility."
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Sandwich generation navigating work, elderly parents and kids at home
By Sarah MacdonaldBroadcaster and author Sarah Macdonald is part of a growing army of silent unpaid workers, coping with the consequences of a housing crisis and a broken aged care system.
#AgedCare #Communities #Parenting #OlderPeople #Family #SarahMacdonald
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#Duped, an AU Four Corners ABC investigation into food fraud on iView.
Corporate capture of Australian governments federal and state exposed.
Fish, eggs, tumeric & tomato sauces are shown to not be what they're claimed be.
Slave labour in the global tomato growing.
Hospitalisations due to allergens being present when the label explicitly states otherwise.
#AgedCare too.
#FoodFraud #FourCorners #FourCornersABC #Slavery #AnthonyAlbanese #CorporateCapture #FoodLabelling #Disaffection #AusPol
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Your ability to walk, even with a frame, has declined.
You're put, against your will, into age care.
And told you must not stand up or get out of your chair without nursing staff assisting.
They use a hoist. You get bruised by being banged into things.
But you are no longer at risk of getting injured in a fall.
Is this a success?
#AdvancedCare #Competency #Priorities #AgedCare #AustralianValues
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Residents hope to raise $750,000 to fix small town's aged care problem
By Elly BradfieldResidents in Texas are kept awake at night wondering what will happen to them as they get older, but they are dreaming big.
#AgedCare #RuralandRemoteCommunities #AgingPopulation #Aging #EllyBradfield
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Love corporate ethics, corporate justifications, corporate regulation dodging and weaving & corporate staffing decisions?
Then I've got good news for you!
If you get into a commercialised #AgedCare facility in #Australia then they'll be providing you with your dream environment.
I don't know what to say to the rest of you.
Build & maintain leg strength, quick stepping skills & balance?
Subscribe to my putative Patreon account for salsa step exercices, horse stance and toe standing hints?
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Notes from a nursing home: ‘Our books told of who we were. The story of us. Then the movers came and asked what should go’
By Andrew McKeanPencil marks in the margins of books gathered over a lifetime was proof of a life lived. So when it came time for Andrew McKean to move into aged care, leaving his books behind made the self thinner
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'What's happened to me?': Bearing witness as my nan faced dementia
By Adelaide MillerThe woman who once chased down a donkey to save her granddaughter would one day need saving herself — and teach me a lesson about love.
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'Attitudes need to change' to protect older Australians from abuse
By Heloise VyasWomen with experience of elder abuse are sharing their stories in national forums to encourage others to seek help.