Most people agree an end-of-life plan would help their families manage financial and legal affairs if they died unexpectedly. Here’s how to get started.
to visit at this time, even if to enhance what may well be his last days. Despite his intention to have at least one valid end-of-life planning document in place before his health declined further, there wasn’t one.
When care staff are delivering care to large numbers of people – there is often up to a ratio of 1:10 in the peak morning period, 1:20 in the afternoons and up to 1:50 overnight – it is physically impossible for staff to deliver individualised, person-centred care, no matter what the glossy brochure says, explains Jilek.
The government push to recruit more age care workers as a matter of urgency will be key to continuing improvements in care at all stages of life. As well as needing an estimated 5000 immediate places to fill the gaps, the prediction is that a further 30,000 staff are needed to reach the minimum mandated 200 minutes a day per person starting this year, and 2015 minutes a day from July 2024.
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