#agedcare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agedcare, aggregated by home.social.
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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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"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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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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#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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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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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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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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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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'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.
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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.
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Family shocked by aged care system's complexity demands overhaul
By Adrienne FrancisVal Cupitt's family are calling for a more streamlined system to apply for aged care, after spending months navigating it to find her a place to call home.
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Family shocked by aged care system's complexity demands overhaul
By Adrienne FrancisVal Cupitt's family are calling for a more streamlined system to apply for aged care, after spending months navigating it to find her a place to call home.
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Aging Out by Lucy Schiller
A profoundly personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America
"Schiller unpacks a complicated subject with curiosity and empathy...[A] deeply human portrayal of what it means to get older in a society unprepared to care for its most vulnerable."—Publishers Weekly
#books
#nonfiction
#America
#ageing
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Aging Out by Lucy Schiller
A profoundly personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America
"Schiller unpacks a complicated subject with curiosity and empathy...[A] deeply human portrayal of what it means to get older in a society unprepared to care for its most vulnerable."—Publishers Weekly
#books
#nonfiction
#America
#ageing
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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
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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
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There is an aged care facility in Perth which last decade administered a drug to a resident which stupefied them to the extent that they had multiple falls in a short period after drug administration began.
Why was the drug administered?
The resident had proposition other residents in their locked dementia ward.How did this happen?
The company had a sexual expression policy.
But it had never been implemented.The "penalty"?
A webinar for execs and admins. -
There is an aged care facility in Perth which last decade administered a drug to a resident which stupefied them to the extent that they had multiple falls in a short period after drug administration began.
Why was the drug administered?
The resident had proposition other residents in their locked dementia ward.How did this happen?
The company had a sexual expression policy.
But it had never been implemented.The "penalty"?
A webinar for execs and admins. -
Australian values as seen in commercialised aged care in Australia.
If your brain gets injured or diseased such that you have violent episodes then you will AIUI be medicated, into a stupor if necessary, & be put in an aged care facility.
Compare this treatment with that received by a violent person who is held still to be competent.
They get to keep their consciousness intact and are controlled by prison guards and bars.
Your preference?
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Australian values as seen in commercialised aged care in Australia.
If your brain gets injured or diseased such that you have violent episodes then you will AIUI be medicated, into a stupor if necessary, & be put in an aged care facility.
Compare this treatment with that received by a violent person who is held still to be competent.
They get to keep their consciousness intact and are controlled by prison guards and bars.
Your preference?
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Looking for an Android app that will create binaural beats in audio streamed to the device by other apps - audiobooks via Audible, audio via YT etc.
(Search engines return a morass of binaural beat apps but nothing that works on the fly.
I know I can download the streams then use Audicity or similar to change the frequency in one of the channels. I do not want to do this. 😉 )
#AndroidApps #BinauralBeats #Audiobooks #AgedCare #MemoryTherapy #Dementia #Alzheimers #LifeAsAnExperiment -
Looking for an Android app that will create binaural beats in audio streamed to the device by other apps - audiobooks via Audible, audio via YT etc.
(Search engines return a morass of binaural beat apps but nothing that works on the fly.
I know I can download the streams then use Audicity or similar to change the frequency in one of the channels. I do not want to do this. 😉 )
#AndroidApps #BinauralBeats #Audiobooks #AgedCare #MemoryTherapy #Dementia #Alzheimers #LifeAsAnExperiment -
ECH village residents get their gardening gloves out https://www.allforgardening.com/1880000/ech-village-residents-get-their-gardening-gloves-out/ #AgedCare #AlanMorrison #BGSH #BotanicGardensAndStateHerbariumOfSouthAustralia #ech #garden #gardening #HeroSlider #MichaelHarvey #ProjectEden #TherapeuticHorticultureProgram
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ECH village residents get their gardening gloves out https://www.allforgardening.com/1880000/ech-village-residents-get-their-gardening-gloves-out/ #AgedCare #AlanMorrison #BGSH #BotanicGardensAndStateHerbariumOfSouthAustralia #ech #garden #gardening #HeroSlider #MichaelHarvey #ProjectEden #TherapeuticHorticultureProgram
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Foxtel and wine: aged care residents billed for services they can’t use - podcast
By Presented by Nour Haydar with Melissa Davey, produced by Daniel Semo and Lu Hill who did the sound design and mix, the executive prodcuer of this episode is Karishma LuthriaAustralia’s aged care regulator is investigating dozens of complaints that aged care providers are charging fees for services that older Australians can’t use or even understand. Meanwhile, a class action against one of Australia’s largest for-profit providers has also alleged it charged residents additional fees for basic services it is legally obliged to provide.
#Agedcare #Health #Australianews #Ageing #TheGuardian #PresentedbyNourHaydarwithMelissaDavey #producedbyDanielSemo #LuHillwhodidthesounddesign #mix #theexecutiveprodcuerofthisepisodeisKarishmaLuthria
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Somehow I got SmartView working. 😀
(Searched in Settings. Found Smartview. This was the only visible sign of SmartView.
Went to the almost greyed-out section of SmartView Permissions. Enabled everything. Then next day found SmartView in the main Menu. Not sure why this worked.)Low vusion Elderly Relative is now enjoying seeing enlarged relatives on TV screen in video calls.
HDMI cable adaptor has also arrived. Untested.
#SmartView #WhatsApp #AgedCare #AssistiveDevice #AgingInPlace
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Somehow I got SmartView working. 😀
(Searched in Settings. Found Smartview. This was the only visible sign of SmartView.
Went to the almost greyed-out section of SmartView Permissions. Enabled everything. Then next day found SmartView in the main Menu. Not sure why this worked.)Low vusion Elderly Relative is now enjoying seeing enlarged relatives on TV screen in video calls.
HDMI cable adaptor has also arrived. Untested.
#SmartView #WhatsApp #AgedCare #AssistiveDevice #AgingInPlace
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It seems old folk are being charged for stuff they can’t use. Is there no end to people’s greed? | First Dog on the Moon
By First Dog on the MoonWhy is anyone allowed to profit from these critical social services?
#Agedcare #Socialcare #Society #TheGuardian #FirstDogontheMoon
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It seems old folk are being charged for stuff they can’t use. Is there no end to people’s greed? | First Dog on the Moon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/13/it-seems-old-folk-are-being-charged-for-stuff-they-cant-use-is-there-no-end-to-peoples-greed #AgedCare #SocialCare #Society
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Dorothy’s aged care home charged $52 a day for Foxtel, wine and newspapers that were no use to her. She wasn’t alone
By Melissa Davey Medical editorExclusive: Many aged care residents in Australia are charged for services they can’t use or understand, prompting an investigation from the regulator
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Dorothy’s aged care home charged $52 a day for Foxtel, wine and newspapers that were no use to her. She wasn’t alone https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/13/aged-care-charges-services-regulator-investigation #AgedCare #AustraliaNews #Health
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Dorothy’s aged care home charged $52 a day for Foxtel, wine and newspapers that were no use to her. She wasn’t alone https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/13/aged-care-charges-services-regulator-investigation #AgedCare #AustraliaNews #Health
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Curbing well-off taxpayers' access to key programs could save billions
By Jacob GreberCurbing access to the child care subsidy, parental leave pay, aged care and pensions for some of the most well-off taxpayers would free up about $21 billion a year, a new report says.
#Tax #Budget #FederalParliament #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #ChildCare #AgedCare #JacobGreber
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Curbing well-off taxpayers' access to key programs could save billions
By Jacob GreberCurbing access to the child care subsidy, parental leave pay, aged care and pensions for some of the most well-off taxpayers would free up about $21 billion a year, a new report says.
#Tax #Budget #FederalParliament #Economy #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #ChildCare #AgedCare #JacobGreber
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Gardening project grows beyond expectations https://www.allforgardening.com/1867045/gardening-project-grows-beyond-expectations/ #AgedCare #baptistcare #BaptistCareStrathalan #garden #gardening #GregSelkrig #HeroSlider #RetirementLiving #TrudiWalters
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Gardening project grows beyond expectations https://www.allforgardening.com/1867045/gardening-project-grows-beyond-expectations/ #AgedCare #baptistcare #BaptistCareStrathalan #garden #gardening #GregSelkrig #HeroSlider #RetirementLiving #TrudiWalters
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Someone I know is taking the lock from their side gate into the locksmith to get it keyed.
And they'll phone the Australian National Dementia Helpline and ask about the legalities of locking doors & gates to stop an elderly person putting themself in grave danger.They're not feeling good.
I'm thinking that being prevented from going out into the world is a significant change.
It could be put into an Advanced Care Directive.#AgingInPlace #AgedCare #DementiaCare #AdvancedCareDirectives
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Someone I know is taking the lock from their side gate into the locksmith to get it keyed.
And they'll phone the Australian National Dementia Helpline and ask about the legalities of locking doors & gates to stop an elderly person putting themself in grave danger.They're not feeling good.
I'm thinking that being prevented from going out into the world is a significant change.
It could be put into an Advanced Care Directive.#AgingInPlace #AgedCare #DementiaCare #AdvancedCareDirectives
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I'd have thought this was a silly joke.But they're serious.
"Trusted partners" - I'm seeing anyone proposing that they'll release medical and private data to anonymous others as inherently untrustworthy.
A deal killer in my evaluation.
#Dementia #DementiaCare #AgingInPlace #AgedCare #DisabilitySector #Privacy #PrivacyLaws #DataSecurity #SafeAndFound
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I'd have thought this was a silly joke.But they're serious.
"Trusted partners" - I'm seeing anyone proposing that they'll release medical and private data to anonymous others as inherently untrustworthy.
A deal killer in my evaluation.
#Dementia #DementiaCare #AgingInPlace #AgedCare #DisabilitySector #Privacy #PrivacyLaws #DataSecurity #SafeAndFound
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Australian aged care firm accused in class action of charging residents for high teas and classes they couldn’t use https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/06/australian-aged-care-firm-accused-in-class-action-of-charging-residents-for-high-teas-and-classes-they-couldnt-use-ntwnfb #AgedCare #AustraliaNews #OlderPeople
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Australian aged care firm accused in class action of charging residents for high teas and classes they couldn’t use https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/06/australian-aged-care-firm-accused-in-class-action-of-charging-residents-for-high-teas-and-classes-they-couldnt-use-ntwnfb #AgedCare #AustraliaNews #OlderPeople
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Video calls on Android with the video showing on a TV display.
Anyone here doing this?
We've got Android phones and an Android TV box.
They're on Apple.We use (genocide-complicit Meta) WhatsApp to talk currently.
Just a short description of how you'd get video showing on a TV at the Android end would be helpful. (I can see doing a WhatsApp video call will be the start.)