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It has been a harrowing week but one with a good outcome. My mother in law has moved from a pleasant single bed ensuite room in one aged care home to a two bed room with linoleum floors in another.

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I was fortunate to attend an Australian memorial ‘tribute’ last week to the late actor, Warren Mitchell, at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre. While he will always be remembered as Alf Garnett from 'Til Death do us Part', he was a successful theatre performer both in the UK and Australia for many decades.

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Changes to aged care legislation passed into law yesterday will give substantially increased choice and control to older people over the home care services they receive.

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Anyone who reads a Fairfax newspaper is unlikely to have missed a very prominent and popular feature article, The Big Sleep, originally published Friday 15 January 2016, in The Age, telling the story behind the double deaths of Peter and Pat Shaw last October in a suicide pact.

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Every year retirement villages suffer an average of six fires in winter across Australia, sadly accompanied with one or more deaths. It is perhaps timely to again alert residents to be aware of the hazards of heaters and kitchen fires, plus replacing batteries in smoke alarms. Last week a 62 year old male died as result of a kitchen fire at 2.30am at the LLC Pacific Palms Home Village in Burpengary, north of Brisbane.

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