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Q&A questioner asks George Brandis about reviews of disability pensions, February 20, 2017.
Topics: carers, disabilities, federal-government, australia
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Relationships will always change when a partner becomes a carer. But what happens to a relationship when one partner has dementia? Dr Ranjana Srivastiva shares one couple's journey.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, carers, health, euthanasia, australia
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| UpdatedLateline spent a day with Fiona Hough and her five-year-old son Charlie, who has autism, to see how they cope when the carer doesn't come.
Topics: disabilities, carers, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia
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Thousands of Australian families rely on carers to help ease the burden of looking after a loved one with disabilities, but many of these families say a shortage of trained carers has left them struggling to cope, February 16, 2017.
Topics: carers, disabilities, family, australia
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Victoria's residential care system is failing the young people it is set up to care for, a former workers says.
Topics: carers, youth, community-and-society, health, child-abuse, child-health-and-behaviour, vic, geelong-3220
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A carer who encouraged sexual acts between two intellectually disabled people and then filmed them is jailed for his crimes, including rape.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, disabilities, carers, sa, adelaide-5000
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Disability advocates and families want West Australian women in government care to be able to choose female carers to assist them with showering and other intimate duties to minimise the potential for abuse.
Topics: disabilities, carers, wa
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A statewide research project aimed at providing more support to grandparents who care for their grandchildren full-time is launched in Western Australia — and for Lorraine Fitzgibbons, it could make a big difference.
Topics: family-and-children, carers, older-people, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAn American journalist is using digital storytelling to share the life stories of patients with dementia, helping carers to better empathise with the people they are caring for.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, family-and-children, community-and-society, medical-history, history, carers, aged-care, brisbane-4000, inverell-2360, united-states
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Residents of a Yamba aged care facility have started their own blokes' beer brewing club, and it's providing them with more than just cold ale.
Topics: aged-care, beverages, carers, alcohol, yamba-2464
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Sue and Dave Hillier's twin girls are both autistic and have intellectual disabilities. The couple still has to care for the twins as though they're children, and they're concerned about what will happen when they're no longer able to do it.
Topics: carers, disabilities, health, community-and-society, hamilton-3300, australia, ballarat-3350, warrnambool-3280
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| UpdatedLeading welfare agency Anglicare says the needs of carers are not being met under the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with a report raising concerns about lack of respite programs and support in general.
Topics: community-and-society, carers, disabilities, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-insurance, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedA residential care home for children in the Northern Territory was a "free-for-all" without proper regulation, a former worker says.
Topics: child-care, child-abuse, carers, nt
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| UpdatedThe former children held in some of Victoria's most notorious institutions are demanding the State Government improve access to key medical records from their past.
Topics: child-abuse, carers, vic, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350
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Grandparents taking care of their grandchildren is the fastest-growing area of home care, a family service provider says.
Topics: family, child-care, community-organisations, youth, carers, esperance-6450
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NSW Premier Mike Baird promises reforms for the care of children who have been removed from their homes, admitting the system was not working as well as it should.
Topics: children, carers, sexual-offences, sydney-2000
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A former provider of residential housing for young people in Canberra believes the ACT Government's tender process is "fraught with problems" and could result in less staff looking after at-risk children.
Topics: carers, community-and-society, youth, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A top NSW Government official admits the ABC Four Corners report into the placement of a 12-year-old girl, who had been sexually assaulted in a home, with a boy facing sexual assault allegations was "disturbing to watch".
Topics: child-abuse, carers, nsw
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The residential care model for children unable to be placed in foster homes should be thrown out in favour of a "science-based solution", a paediatrics expert says.
Topics: child-abuse, family-and-children, community-and-society, carers, child-care, australia
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| UpdatedA Perth lawyer, whose brother is part of the West Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) trial, says it has serious policy shortcomings.
Topics: disabilities, health, federal-government, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, health-policy, carers, wa, australia
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A group of people from across Australia with disabilities say they feel empowered after participating in a camping tour of Broken Hill in far west New South Wales.
Topics: disabilities, family, community-and-society, carers, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, travel-health-and-safety, broken-hill-2880, melbourne-3000, pittsworth-4356
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There are hopes to make the Hunter region the leading area for dementia care in the country.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, aged-care, carers, community-and-society, newcastle-2300
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A woman who cares for her 23-year-old son pins her hopes on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, hoping it will better support her son and her family.
Topics: disabilities, carers, morwell-3840
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Harlene Hercules (pictured) manages her father's finances, day trips and visits him regularly, she is one of the millions of Australians acting as an informal carer.
Topics: disabilities, carers, family-and-children, health, federal-government, government-and-politics, community-and-society, hoppers-crossing-3029, australia, vic
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| UpdatedQueensland nurse Caitlin Brassington writes an open letter to a woman who called her "just a nurse" at a corner store after a busy shift.
Topics: carers, careers, work, people, doctors-and-medical-professionals, community-and-society, social-media, toowoomba-4350