Australia's residential aged care facilities are getting bigger and less home-like
- Written by Ralph Hampson, Senior Lecturer, Health and Ageing, University of Melbourne
Residential aged care facilities should be more like a home and less like a hospital.from shutterstock.com
Most older people want to stay at home as long as they can. When this is no longer possible, they move into residential aged care facilities, which become their home. But Australia’s care facilities for the aged are growing in size and...
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