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Dr Nicole Sutton from the University of Technology Sydney joined Aged Care Insite to speak about historical staffing levels in Australia, the new standards, and the obstacles facing providers leading up to 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
NARI executive director Professor Briony Dow joins Aged Care Insite to speak about how ageism is reflected through words, the consequences of stereotypes, and developing a new age-positive language guide for Ageism Awareness Day 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Professor Lisa Scharoun from the University of Technology Queensland joins Aged Care Insite to discuss her new book 'Cross-Cultural Design For Healthy Ageing' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Professor Joseph Ibrahim and PhD student Briohny Kennedy speak with Aged Care Insite about their new research into older adult homicide, published last month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chris Mamarelis, Whiddon CEO joins Aged Care Insite to talk rapid antigen testing at Whiddon aged care facilities See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves, a senior lecturer of sociology at Monash University, speaks to Aged Care Insite about how creative writing can deepen insights into how people living in aged care homes experience loneliness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Saviour Buhagiar, Uniting Director of Ageing, joins Aged Care Insite to talk about the build, Unitigns outlook on aged care, his views on transparency and the federal budget.
Professor Jo Ibrahim form Monash University joins Aged Care Insite to discuss the royal commission final report. He touches on the new aged care act and the two proposed systems of governance.
Leading Aged Services Australia's Chief Executive Sean Rooney joins Aged Care Insite to discuss his initial thoughts. We discuss the two proposals for the governance of the sector, the home care waitlist , financial transparency and the Australian Aged Care Collaboration.
Marcus Riley is the director of the Global Ageing Network, author of positive ageing book BOOMING and CEO of BallyCara. He joins to discuss and introduce his new podcast BOOMING, which Aged Care Insite will be publishing weekly.
The government announced an aged care worker retention bonus in March. However it has since been discovered that only applies to a select few workers and will be taxed. Shane Neaves, CEO Peninsula Villages joins Aged Care Insite to discuss the bonus.
Aged Care Insite talk with Dr Donna Bossio form Swinburne University about the Opera Project. A collaboration between Eastern Community Legal Centre and Swinburne, the program has used extensive community consultation to explore how ageism plays out in the day-to-day experiences of older people and better understand its trajectory towards elder abuse
OPAN chief executive Craig Gear talks to Aged Care Insite about his organisation and the royal commission
Dan Levitt talks to Aged Care Insite about our aging workforce at Australian Healthcare Week 2019
Dr Takanori Shibata is the inventor of PARO the therapy robot. He discusses PARO with Aged Care Insite
Are smartphones making our brains lazy? It’s a common concern about the devices and their handy memory tools but Australian researchers say these applications are more helpful than harmful. Aged Care Insite speaks with Dr Dana Wong, senior lecturer in clinical neuropsychology at Monash University to discuss a study into the impact of smartphone memory aids on a person’s memory.
Shane Neaves is the CEO of Peninsula Villages, a residential aged care community in Brisbane Water, on New South Wales’ Central Coast, an hour north of Sydney. Peninsula Villages is currently working with Brisbane Water Secondary College to introduce Year 11 and Year 12 students to the possibility of a career in aged care. Neaves spoke with Aged Care Insite about this initiative, the challenges of recruiting new staff to the sector and future workforce issues in aged care.
To mark Valentine’s Day on Tuesday 14 February 2017, Aged Care Insite spoke with Dr Patricia Weerakoon about the sex and love lives of older Australians, and what role professional and family carers have in this subject. Weerakoon broaches subjects including the use of protection to stop the spread of sexually transmitted infections, how to be on the alert for unscrupulous operators targeting the lonely and how to accommodate couples where one member is high care and the other is low care.
The Macular Disease Foundation of Australia (MDFA) has released a new report into the longterm funding requirements for aids and technologies to assist the 100,000 older Australians with vision loss or blindness. Aged Care Insite spoke with MFDA CEO Julie Heraghty about the reports findings and recommendations, including an overview of the issues, an explanation with examples of what vision loss aids and technologies are, estimates of the financial boost required, and the identification of who should be footing the bill.
BallyCara CEO Marcus Riley will be addressing members of the United Nations to advocate for a UN Convention of the Rights of Older Persons. He spoke with Aged Care Insite about this conference and what points he will be raising.
In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite steps in to provide some expert commentary on the Five Big Myths of Growing Old, according USQ’s resident expert gerontologist.
In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite steps in to provide some expert commentary on the Five Big Myths of Growing Old, according USQ’s resident expert gerontologist.
In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite steps in to provide some expert commentary on the Five Big Myths of Growing Old, according USQ’s resident expert gerontologist.
Seniors United Party senate candidate Gillian Evans speaks with Aged Care Insite news editor about the her candidacy and party's policies for at the 2016 federal election.