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Clinical, Residential Aged Care & Future Leaders



Is aged care fixable?
Podcast with Joseph E. Ibrahim:
Assault, suicide, malnutrition and preventable deaths.


Future Leaders Communiqué Volume 3 Issue 4 October 2018
Welcome to the January 2019 edition of the Future Leaders Communiqué. In this edition, we discuss the concept of ‘medical risk.’ An example


Clinical Communiqué Volume 5 Issue 3 September 2018
Looking after our patients and improving the ways in which we keep them safe is only one side of the story.


Residential Aged Care Communiqué Volume 13 Issue 3 August 2018
Welcome to the third edition of the year. This edition examines the plight of young people who live in residential aged care services (RACS)


Future Leaders Communiqué Volume 3 Issue 3 July 2018
We will reflect on two cases where pressured discharge planning sadly preceded tragic outcomes.


HLARU Recommendations Spreadsheet
The Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Monash University have developed this tool to assist RACS in the implementation


Residential Aged Care Communiqué Episode #20: Terminal Sedation
This podcast examines particularly challenging aspects of palliative care for persons with dementia, for those who have lost decision-making capacity and terminal sedation.

The Communiqués


Residential Aged Care Communiqué Volume 20 Issue 3 August 2025
The investigations of two deaths related to medications and medication management highlight the importance of challenging the status quo.

The Communiqués


Controversies and medicolegal aspects of multidisciplinary teams in geriatric medicine.
The workshop explores what can be done to better enable prevention and manage unwanted sexual behaviour in RACS.

The Communiqués
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