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Health is a broad concept, influenced by a range of determinants – psycho-social, environmental, cultural, spiritual (for example). Any care or services can impact a person’s health.  Therefore, the concept of clinical governance (which aspires to achieve optimal health outcomes - and therefore quality of living) is as relevant to home care as it is to residential aged care, despite different contexts and priorities. This article dives into building a clinical governance framework that takes direction from the Revised Aged Care Quality Standards (Strengthened Quality Standards), as it relates to aged and home care.

The Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) have released its latest ROSA Outcome Monitoring System (OMS) report, a quality and safety monitoring and benchmarking system designed to promote quality improvement, transparency, and accountability for the aged care sector.

How many aged care residents receive care based on the best available evidence? We all want this for the people we serve – but what’s really happening?

This ‘CareTrack’ paper reports on the first Australian study of adherence to evidence-based care for people in long-term care using a standardised method. The study examined the care received by 294 residents across 27,585 care encounters in 25 long-term care (aged care) facilities. 

Dignity in healthcare, and particularly in the care of the elderly, is seen as a basic human right, as is the right not to be harmed in the course of care. But are these rights counteracting each other?

This article explores the relationship between the management of clinical risk and the provision of dignified care to older people on acute hospital wards in the NHS. It shows that the care relationship between staff and their patients can be negatively affected by risk management practices that seek to eliminate the inherent uncertainties of clinical care. Ironically, it seems the management of clinical risk can pose a challenge to maintaining dignified care for older people.