This survey explored how funding cuts are, or would, impact the delivery of care in residential care facilities across the States and Territories, with the aim of gathering information to place aged care as a key election issue and gain the attention of voters, and thus, politicians.

Older people living in long-term care facilities often have multimorbidity, requiring many prescription medicines. However, polypharmacy in older people is also associated with hospitalisations, adverse drug events, drug–drug interactions, drug– disease interactions, falls, impaired functional capacity and cognitive impairment. This article suggests that reducing polypharmacy may reduce adverse events and maintain quality of life.

This paper summarises research regarding the social inclusion of young people in nursing homes, and further outlines the policy and practical challenges related to this issue.

Feminist economists are studying marketised care services, such as nursing homes, as the intersection of the performance of ‘care’, traditionally unpaid and provided within families by women, and ‘work’ as a paid means of earning a living. During research towards her doctoral thesis on how aged care nurses experience their care work, the author noticed...