Rural aged care providers are stepping up to meet sweeping reforms and in Victoria’s south-east, one small service is showing what that looks like on the ground.
When many of his contemporaries have long stepped away from deadlines, legendary Australian journalist Robert Gottliebsen AM is still filing his weekly column aged 85, with the help of a home care provider.
Tucked away in a picturesque location overlooking the Tamar River in Launceston, a boutique aged care home is making a big impression, not just in Tasmania, but across the country.
It’s long been accepted within many migrant communities that families look after their ageing loved ones, but now a rise in culturally specific aged care is providing diverse communities with the support they need.
A move to relationship-based care is transforming aged care homes across the country, blurring the lines between residents and workers, strengthening personal connections, and creating true community.
A Queensland-based provider is delivering culturally attuned aged care, in crocodile country, where services have repeatedly failed to take hold for first nation communities.
