It’s one thing to talk about what it takes to age in place or normalising the ageing-in-place concept on a community level. But what do we need to actually make it happen? Here’s what we can experiment with as individuals to age-in-place to ensure we have the access...
Ageing-in-place is becoming increasingly popular as a concept. There’s a movement towards maintaining autonomy by staying in familiar surroundings, and a desire to stay home rather than enter residential care. The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute...
Family estrangement remains a taboo subject in Australia. The assumption that families stay connected underpins much of the aged care practice and end-of-life planning in Australia. Yet social worker and academic Dr Kylie Agllias found one in 25 Australians are...
We normalise care plans for aged care, but can we say that death literacy is increasing? Depending on which reports you go by, 70% to 80% of Australians don’t experience a good death because of a lack of advance care plan. Death literacy is a feature in the halls of...
We may talk about the ExSitu care plan a lot around here – but now it’s time to really crack open the hood! Let’s walk you through the sort of information you can store in an ExSitu care plan. Why choose an ExSitu care plan? The first thing you’ll notice about an...
At ExSitu, we create a lot of end-of-life and aged care plans but there’s one area we’re woefully underutilised in and that is creating a self-care plan. Care plans are amazing things. They can help articulate your needs across health, mental health, aged care and...
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