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Cost of SA's aged care 'crisis' revealed as stranded patients wait for beds
By Stephanie Richards

The South Australian Government spent more than $123 million last year on patients stranded in hospital waiting for aged care beds.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-12/sa-aged-care-cost-crisis/107135498

#AgedCare #PublicHealth #AmbulanceService #HealthPolicy #StateandTerritoryParliament #StephanieRichards

Dementia patients warned off seeking home care in case Australia’s aged care algorithm cuts funding
By Melissa Davey Medical editor

Exclusive: FoI documents show senior health officials were warned of concerns about assessment tool weeks after it launched

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/12/dementia-patients-warned-applying-algorithm-aged-care-funding

#Health #Australianews #Agedcare #Laborparty #Australianpolitics #TheGuardian #MelissaDaveyMedicaleditor

Dementia patients warned off seeking home care in case Australia’s aged care algorithm cuts funding https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/12/dementia-patients-warned-applying-algorithm-aged-care-funding #Health #AustraliaNews #AgedCare #LaborParty #AustralianPolitics

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Coway bidet toilet seat remote control holder.

It is too big for the remote.
The remote moves around when the button is pushed.

(Thanks Coway. Your holder is not fit for purpose. smh. )

I made a pad of expanded styrofoam measuring 71mm wide, 77mm tall and angled from ~6mm thick at the top to 7mm thick at the bottom.

This will be put in the back bottom of the holder and held in place with double sided tape.

#BidetToiletSeat #DesignFail #Coway #AgedCare #AgedCareInHome #Toileting

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

Aged care in Australia and Autonomy

Looking at chemical strait-jackets here.

When would physical restraints or a prison environment be better?

Would you ever choose a prison environment over a #ChemicalStraitjacket for yourself?

The visuals/aesthetics of a chemical #Straitjacket are nicer.

Rather have your autonomy respected when it is safe for that to happen?
(And be locked in a cell when it is not.)

Got thoughts?

#AgedCare #Australia #Autonomy
#Dementia
#AdvancedCare
#Violence

Gardening project grows beyond expectations https://www.allforgardening.com/1867045/gardening-project-grows-beyond-expectations/ #AgedCare #baptistcare #BaptistCareStrathalan #garden #gardening #GregSelkrig #HeroSlider #RetirementLiving #TrudiWalters

Culture, gender and birth order meant I would always be in the ‘sandwich generation’

Cindy Mai has always known she would be the one to care for her aging parents. As the…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #Agedcare #agingparents #AU #Australia #birthorder #carer #caring #Gender #sandwichgeneration
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/671764/

Culture, gender and birth order meant I would always be in the ‘sandwich generation’

Cindy Mai has always known she would be the one to care for her aging parents. As the…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #Agedcare #agingparents #AU #Australia #birthorder #carer #caring #Gender #sandwichgeneration
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/671764/

@PhoenixSerenity @maddad

And you've modelled calling for help early.
Rather than late, or too late.

Thanks for sharing.
I'll apply this on the water, and it'll fit in well with #AgedCare for an #ElderlyRelative.

#CallForHelp

#ElderlyRelative seemed to need more care to #AgeInPlace.
Hours were put in to get assessment, approval and provision of a largely government funded #AgedCare package and then the support started being delivered.
Which increased, not decreased, the load on family carers.
Then a minor car crash, just enough to fracture sternum, while getting support service.
Then pain, and step-downs in memory and succeeding at multi-step tasks.

Family carers get workload tripled.

#WhatCouldGoWrong not asked.

News from #HumanoWorld, Sydney NSW Australia. #ProSport

In a stunning turn around #SouthSydney outscored #Manly by 37 points in the lastest #NSW #AgedCare match-up.

Manly's coach Robin Guo said after the match, "Look we worked hard but clearly we're going to have to get much smarter in the #CommunityEngagement area, Souths just killed us there. But we're here to care for our elderly and our great fans will rise to challenge and against #Paramatta you'll see a more effective outfit in play."