Ageing-in-place with neighbourhood support
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...
Who will have your back at the end-of-life?
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...
Where we face the most threats to death literacy
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...
What do you put in an ExSitu care plan?
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...
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