Aged care: How do we honour our obligations to the elderly?

The Minefield
03/06/2021 54 min
Aged care: How do we honour our obligations to the elderly?

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The Royal Commission into Aged Care and the ravages of COVID-19 within aged care facilities have thrown a spotlight on the adequacy, the ethics and the dignity of our ongoing care of the elderly. To what extent have entrenched patterns of ageist prejudice created the conditions within which certain forms of abuse and neglect could take place? And what can we do to challenge and change these prejudices?

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