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Looking for a nursing home place for your parent with dementia? Here's what to consider

  • Written by Louise Hickman, Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
imageIn addition to bed availability, look for specialist dementia wards, skilled staff and good communication channels.hxdbzxy/Shutterstock

This week’s ABC 7.30 footage of elder abuse in an Adelaide nursing home is an extreme example of how things can go wrong in the care of vulnerable older people with dementia. Suspecting mistreatment, the...

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