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In this episode, we talk about issues that home care providers should start to consider now, pending the release of the changes to the Quality of Care Principles and the commencement of the incident management and Serious Incident Response Scheme requirements for home care.

These changes are par...

In this episode, we discuss the changes to the requirements for key personnel of approved providers. 

In particular, we talk about the suitability test that is due to replace the disqualified individual test. 

These changes are part of the Aged Care Royal Commission Response No. 2 Bill that the...

In this episode, we look at requests for health records and visitor records in residential care by family members in disputed estates in South Australia.

We focus on:

• who has the capacity to speak on behalf of the estate;
• access to health records;
• access to visitor records being maintained
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In this episode, we look at Report of the South Australian Retirement Villages Act review which was released in November 2021.

We consider some of the key recommendations and commentary about:

• the role of the Office for Ageing Well;
• the current statutory buy-back arrangements;
• the adequacy
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In this episode, we look at the requirement to obtain informed consent to the use of restrictive practices in residential care under the Quality of Care Principles.  A key issue we consider is when informed consent can be obtained in South Australia without having to go to the South Australian Ci...

In this episode, we look at the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) in residential aged care and, specifically, the category of ‘neglect’ as a reportable incident.

Here are some of the key points from the podcast.

1.  We consider the definition of ‘neglect’ within the Quality of Care Princi...

Welcome to O'Loughlins on air, a podcast on current legal issues in health, aged care and retirement living . 

In this episode, we look at the Serious Incident Response Scheme (or SIRS) in residential aged care and when a resident fall will be reportable to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commi...