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Pages tagged "Aged Care"


Coronavirus outbreak ‘will leave aged care exposed’

Posted on News by Npaq · March 03, 2020 4:19 PM
Nurses Professional ­Association of Queensland president Phill Tsingos. Picture: Patria Jannides
Nurses Professional ­Association of Queensland president Phill Tsingos. Picture: Patria Jannides

 

Article Written by Stephen Lunn, Social Affairs Editor, The Australian on 3 March, 2020

The elderly will be particularly at risk in the event of a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus, with aged-care homes unable to cope, a nurses’ group has warned.

The Nurses Professional ­Association of Queensland is also worried aged-care nurses have ­received no specific training or ­advice from the government on how to handle the coronavirus.

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Dutch Scheme could help save Australia's Aged Care crisis

Posted on News by Npaq · January 20, 2020 11:47 AM

NPAQ recommends Buurtzorg Scheme

The Courier Mail's Des Houghton reported that after it was revealed 230 older Australians die each week waiting for government help to stay at home, pioneering Dutch neighbourhood care scheme may offer a solution to Australia’s burgeoning aged care crisis.  

 

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Neighbour nurse plan 'a big boon to elderly'

Posted on News by Npaq · December 28, 2019 10:57 AM
EXCLUSIVE STEPHEN LUNN, SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR, The Weekend Australian, 27 December 2019
Nurses Professional Association of Queensland director Graeme Haycroft. Picture: AAP
Nurses Professional Association of Queensland director Graeme Haycroft. Picture: AAP

A new “neighbourhood nursing” scheme could keep older Australians in their own homes longer and save the economy $4.5bn a year, the aged-care royal commission has been told.

 

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Aged Care Nursing - ABC Radio with Steve Austin

Posted on News by Npaq · November 26, 2019 3:39 PM

16,000 elderly died waiting for Home Care

Posted on News by NPAQ · November 18, 2019 3:34 PM

Elderly on park bench

Here at NPAQ headquarters we were alarmed to read in the interim report of the Royal Commission in to aged care that 16,000 elderly Australians died waiting for Home Care packages.  

This is a disgrace.


Our members (and one of our executives) have told us they have elderly parents who have waited three years for a package.
We intend to highlight this failure in our submission to the Royal Commission.

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Aged Care QLD: Nurses claim cover up

Posted on News by Hotline Npaq · September 23, 2019 11:31 AM

Aged Care QLD

NATASHA BITA, The Courier-Mail

September 22, 2019

A woman choked to death on her food, another was not bathed for two years and busy staff turned off call bells. These are just some of the contested allegations Queensland nurses will make to the Royal Commission into aged care abuse.

 

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