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• A market-based service: why Australia’s aged care homes fail residents with demential

  26-05-2023 17:00
  
  The royal commission found dementia care should be ‘core business’, but more than two years later, staff say compulsory training ‘is basically non-existent’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRegistered nurse Alison* has spent almost $40,000 throughout her 20-year career in aged care learning how to work compassionately with elderly people and, in particular, those with dementia.Despite more than two-thirds of those in residential aged
  
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• Parents given life sentences for ‘savage’ murder of baby son

  26-05-2023 15:52
  
  Ten-month-old Finley Boden died on Christmas Day, just over a month after being returned to parents’ careA couple found guilty of the “savage and brutal” Christmas Day murder of their 10-month-old son have been sentenced to life imprisonment.Finley Boden died 39 days after a family court ruled he could be returned to the care of his parents, Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22. Continue reading...
  
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• Couple jailed for ‘savage’ Christmas Day murder of baby son

  26-05-2023 15:52
  
  Finley Boden’s father imprisoned for minimum of 29 years and his mother for minimum of 27A couple found guilty of the “savage and brutal” Christmas Day murder of their 10-month-old son have been sentenced to life imprisonment.Finley Boden died 39 days after a family court ruled he could be returned to the care of his parents, Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22. Continue reading...
  
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