Malnourishment is not exactly what you would associate with the Michelin restaurant guide, but the Department of Health has gone ahead and done a Michelin (with dots rather than stars) for Australian nursing homes - available from July 2020. How helpful is it?
A new CPSA publication explains why it is necessary for most retirees to use their capital to fund their retirement and suggests a few ways in which it can be done without running out of money before you die.
Everybody is concerned about serious incidents in nursing homes in which one resident attacks another. Often dementia is in play. But being concerned is not going to fix the problem.
Dying with Dignity NSW's Board Member Dr Liz Jacka did not agree with an article published last month on this website about Advance Care Directives. Here is her reply.
Australia's disregard for oral health continues with public dental schemes coming very close to being de-funded.
Halved overnight! Many retirees received a letter from their superannuation fund saying their pension would be halved from 1 July 2020. It's not as bad as it seems, though.
Media reports suggest that cash has all but vanished as a method of payment but the Reserve Bank of Australia begs to differ.
Powers of attorney are a great tool for people's affairs to be managed, but they can and are abused as well. What to do about this?
The Government's housing stimulus package ignores the need for social and affordable housing in favour of helping home buyers and renovators, who will appreciate the extra cash, but what about the massive waiting list for social housing?
In a letter to CPSA, CPSA member Bob Meadly provides an insight in how COVID-19 is lived in rural NSW and also opines that free-to-air TV these days is so bad it probably gives you dementia.
The Pensioner Beneficiary Living Cost Index (PBLCI), used in pension indexation, has proven its worth in the March 2020 quarter once again, but pensioners haven't always be so lucky.
The aim of an Advance Care Directive is to keep control of your life when you no longer have the capacity to be in control. A decision by the highest Dutch court in a euthanasia case shows where this can lead.
There is plenty of evidence that shows Australian nursing homes escaped COVID-19 disaster not through planning and skill but simply because COVID-19 never took off in Australia generally.
CPSA asked the NSW Health Minister for daily updates on COVID-19 in NSW nursing homes, but that would be inappropriate, says the Minister.
Some good news on waiting lists for Home Care Packages, but analysis reveals the misery for tens of thousands of people will continue for years to come. Aged care on the cheap and never never.
The new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) is supposed to clean up the financial planning industry and keep it clean, but critics of the industry are already crying foul over continuing conflicted fees and charges.
Stamp duty adds thousands of dollars to the cost of buying a house or apartment. Would replacing it with an annual land tax, where you pay the same but over time, make it easier to sell and buy elsewhere? Would it be helpful in downsizing? Victoria has it, the ACT is getting it, NSW is thinking about it.
The only sure way of stopping new infections at Newmarch House is by transferring COVID-19 positive residents to hospital and by giving the home a deep-clean so that residents not infected can safely stay at a place that had a good reputation locally before the virus got in.
CPSA is calling for the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) to resume inspections of nursing homes at a time of extreme risk to the health and wellbeing of nursing home residents.