Aged care focus needs shift to patient rights, not profit

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Aged care focus needs shift to patient rights, not profit

Frances Matthews

Wednesday 2 October 2024, 03:05 PM

Older adults with dementia are often removed from the places they know and kept apart from the community [Image: LSOphoto on iStock]

Frances Matthews questions the ‘warehousing’ approach for older adults needing care and suggests an ACC-style scheme might be the answer to funding

We stand on the shoulders of the generations before us and should respect their gifts to us This year, I made submissions to the health select co

1. Ngundu T, et al. A 2-year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2015;385 (9984):2255–63.

2. Frank L, et al. The effect of risperidone on nursing burden associated with caring for patients with dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc 2004;52(9):1449–55.

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