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We’ve heard about ways hospitals are making sustainable building choices, but where does Aged Care fit into the picture? Sue Cartledge reports.

With a global focus on sustainability, Sue Cartledge investigates the challenge of going green in healthcare.

What is the style that prospective residents and their families want in a residential aged care facility? How do interior design trends affect the way a person sees their new home?

Sue Cartledge looks at the trends taking hold in ‘08

There are some real benefits in caring for patients within their own homes after they’re discharged from hospital. Sue Cartledge takes a look at a community care program with an emphasis on teamwork.

Leah Bisiani is a self-styled crusader for dementia care, who runs regular workshops and training sessions, and addressed the prestigious 25th Annual Gerontology Assoication Conference in Canada last year (2006). She spoke to Sue Cartledge about the importance of ‘true person-centred care’.

Technological advances and new models of care are changing the face of ward and theatre design. Sue Cartledge attended a recent health facilities design conference to hear more about the trends.

The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne is working towards becoming a virtual paediatric hospital for youngsters and their families in remote and rural parts of Victoria. Sue Cartledge reports on the RCH’s progress.

Captain Clyde Thomson has served with the Royal Flying Doctor Service for 32 years, and is currently the CEO of the South-East Region, an area which stretches from Dubbo in North-west NSW to Launceston, in Northern Tasmania. He spoke to Sue Cartledge about changes to the RFDS.

Community care is generally taken to mean ageing in place in a person’s own home, but as Sue Cartledge found out when she attended the recent national community care conference, community care covers a lot more than helping the elderly.

Dr Rodney Jilek has spent the past four years finding out what it is older men want from aged care facilities, and looking for the best ways to provide it. He tells Sue Cartledge that a female majority of both residents and staff numbers leaves male residents feeling disempowered and isolated.

Increasingly, Australian hospitals are recognising the importance of an arts program. Sue Cartledge explores the impressive art collections - and argues, it’s a start!

Kalgoorlie Base Hospital, the Royal Flying Doctor Service and GP practices in the remote Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia can now communicate thanks to a new multiservice broadband network. Sue Cartledge reports.

A group of Chinese healthcare professionals visited NSW in March to compare Australian approaches to healthcare management to their own.

A service that could reduce chronically ill patients’ health costs by 50 per cent is being considered by health insurers around the country.

The current state of and future directions in palliative care in the UK and Australia were explored at the Strengthening Palliative Care forum staged at Monash University.

The fire at Melbourne’s Mercy Hospital for Women on Christmas morning 2004 not only caused the evacuation of maternity and neonatal patients and staff to other metropolitan hospitals, it totally disrupted Mercy Health & Aged Care’s newly upgraded IT system. Sue Cartledge reports.

Hammond Care Dementia Services Development Centre recently collaborated with Scotland’s Stirling University and Japanese welfare organisation Tenjinkai to produce a resource kit exploring dementia care in Australia and Japan.

Music therapy is generally used in children’s hospitals to boost the spirits of young patients. Less well known is its use in rehab.

Hospitals are places where we expect everything to be done to assist the healing of the patient, but how often do we consider the contribution of the environment - walls, ceilings, windows, furnishings?