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The article offers information on a changed model of care, supported by a partnership with Dementia Training Australia, has helped Ananda aged care transition to the new aged care quality standards and improve the confidence of its staff to provide practice dementia care. Topic include provide balance duty of care with the quality of life of residents and a dignity of risk approach, where some consensual risk is seen as beneficial to quality of life.

The article offers information on the standards for the continuous improvement programs for the old-aged people with dementia. Topics discussed include information on the significant role of the nomenclature of the Resident Focused Care Advocate (RFCA); discussions on the RFCA's aim of delivering resident-focused care; and the information on the use of task-oriented approach in terms of resource management.

An editorial is presented on the research from different perspectives on human communication and embraces the embodied, multilingual and culturally diverse nature of oracy. It offers a counter narrative to such reductive discourses, and expose the inequalities that such perspectives produce, perpetuate, and uphold. An overview of the classrooms in multilingual contexts in South Africa, the U.S., Zambia, Australia with standard English dominated curricular mandates is presented.