I wrote this piece in the week that followed the airing of Q & A when the Royal Commission into Aged Care was about to be handed down. Because it coincided with a political maelstrom which continues as we speak, it could not be published as anticipated in The Age. There needs to be attention …
Compassion in Aged Care This story appeared in The Saturday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and WA Today, on Saturday 12 September. Warm thanks to artist Kathy Westfold for permission to use her watercolour image. Like many families with frail elderly parents, I have been watching the unfolding COVID-19 crisis in aged care …
in January during the Australian bushfires. My mother died in what feels like another era now, though it was only three months ago.
