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What do aged care residents do all day? We tracked their time use to find out.

Authors :
Siette, Joyce
Dodds, Laura
Source :
Conversation (Conversation Media Group Ltd); 9/13/2022, p1-1, 1p
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

What do aged care residents do all day? Doing residential aged care differently After media reports and a royal commission highlighted the failings of Australia's aged care system, it's time to think differently about aged care. Across the day, residents spent the greatest proportion of time (45%) in their own room were alone 47.9% of the time were inactive 25.6% of the time were most likely to chat with other residents, followed by staff, then family outside of meal times, residents had conversations in the common area or in their own rooms. [Extracted from the article]

Details

Language :
English
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Conversation (Conversation Media Group Ltd)
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
159129872