St. Basil's Aged Care NSW & ACT’s Post

As we mark #CloseTheGapDay, it's crucial to recognize the tireless efforts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, communities, and organisations over the past year. Despite facing steep challenges, disappointments, and continuing health disparities, the resilience and advocacy of these communities has remained unwavering. Access to quality healthcare is a fundamental right for all Australians. By acknowledging and addressing the barriers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities face, we can work towards closing the gap in health outcomes and creating a more culturally safe intensive care practice. This means ensuring culturally appropriate healthcare services, investing in preventative measures, and ensuring solutions are led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. CICM is committed to closing the gap, particularly by working with the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander intensivists. Think about what you could do today to help close the gap, whether it's taking a cultural safety course or engaging with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. You can register to AIDA’s Cultural Safety Workshops here: https://lnkd.in/gJDi7fkf

Palliative Care Australia and its members around the country have developed a road map of actions to increase access to palliative care for all Australians. Show your support and share it with your network - https://ow.ly/JYUN50RFjUc   #MattersOfLifeAndDeath

A roadmap for Australians…

📢 Exploring Barriers in Home-Based Aged Care 🏡 New publication from our team that explores challenges older Australians face in accessing home-based aged care, including social isolation and gaps in informal support. 📄 Read the full paper: https://lnkd.in/gV2i4XDE

Launching of Global Observatory of Long Term Care by Adelina Comas-Herrera today in Singapore! A topic I can definitely contribute to! Lotus Eldercare Private Limited #longtermcareservices #longtermcareglobalobservatory

Doug Ford Ontario families are suffering from so many health uses and tired of wait time in energency. Its of no use on Doctors day to just post something about ontarion’s health. Your province is in worst for health issues. All other provinces has programs like Clinical associates(CA’s) where Regulatory bodies of those provinces are hiring our IMG’s who passed LMCC and back home experience to serve in hospitals in emergency departments/ acute care and primary care. These IMG’s are working day and night to support canadian doctors. In your province only these IMG’s are totally ignored and never get a chance to be added as part of health system. This is your failure or may be you dont have insight for this as you care about buildings and roads. Either you dont understand the critical situation of health system or deliberately trying to be ignorant about condition of your province for shortage of doctors. I haven’t seen anytime in any of your events talking about improvement plans in health system. Ontario started PRO program but so many barriers on the eligibility criteria for IMG’s. Other provinces has not tgat tough criteria for their Programs like PRA and in better pisition. Ontario is not IMG friendly and will loose Doctors if there won’t be change in pilicies for IMG’s. Population in Ontario is increasing day by day and many Family physicians are retiring in 2025-2026, people will be in struggle to get Family doctor. If you really want to improve health system, relax your policies for IMG’s and open programs like other Provinces. There is a red flag for 2025 -2026 for big shortage of doctors and nearly 6 million people without family doctors

Strengthening partnerships and collaboration is key in ensuring the health and well-being of communities worldwide. Together, we can build a healthier future for all. https://lnkd.in/eSsvADwA 

Rapid review sought by Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care highlights the importance of culturally safe, responsive, and holistic approaches to ageing and aged care for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Five themes are outlined - preservation and expression of culture, cultural identity, and connection to family, community, and Country for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. However, this is not always reflected within mainstream aged care frameworks, policies and practices. Read more ➡️https://lnkd.in/gthQQvc4

"Everyone agrees on the principal goals for aged care in Australia: older people deserve to have a great aged care experience; we need a thriving aged care sector because without ‘healthy’ providers there is no sector." Visit the updated Regulatory Strategy of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission describing how they will deliver on a commitment to protecting older people, and how they will hold providers and workers to account. ⏩ https://lnkd.in/gp5iUK59

Third Congress of Palliative Care in the Republic of Benin