Monthly Archives: September 2018

A list of Sydney Metropolitan aged care facilities with websites and ordinary email addresses 1

We are putting together a list of Sydney Metropolitan aged care facilities with websites and ordinary email addresses – click here to view our list so far. So far there are 21 on this list – 3 that appear to be individually … Continue reading

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Royal Commissions as a solution to problems 1

Has the Financial services Royal Commission changed anything in the insurance companies sector? We sought to find this out in relation to the AMP. See this correspondence, after an email was sent to the AMP complaining bitterly about some of … Continue reading

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Opal Specialist Aged Care

We’ve recently been made aware of this organisation. They have 19 aged care facilities in New South Wales, ALL with their own websites AND ALL with their own ordinary email addresses! We’re impressed! There’s another aged care chain like this … Continue reading

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The Commonwealth’s Aged Care Complaints Commission

One of our reactions to the news that a Royal Commission into our aged care sector is to be set up is that in all probability it was/is far more urgent that a Royal Commissions into the government’s own regulation … Continue reading

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The BEST aged care facilities 3

To us the best aged care facilities have ordinary email addresses readily available – we’ve found from long experience, at least in other areas, that those who don’t mostly aren’t worth bothering with. Why do we place such emphasis on … Continue reading

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The BEST aged care facilities 2

Further to our previous post on this matter, if you go to this article, it has paragraphs like this one about a retired nurse:- This led us to carry out extensive searches on the internet in which we failed to … Continue reading

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The BEST aged care facilities 1

There are certain things that are quite simple about this matter. “We get the aged care facilities we deserve” can certainly be added to the old saying, “We get the politicians we deserve.” Putting it another way – if we’re … Continue reading

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Australia’s Aged Care Complaints Commission – dealing with 3

An interesting item  from todays Financial Review:- Shares in Regis, Japara and Estia – all aged care facility operators down by as much as 18.6%, which is a lot. Perhaps some of their shareholders are concerned that some of the … Continue reading

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Australia’s Aged Care Complaints Commission – dealing with 2

Further to our previous post in which we reported that this letter had been emailed to the Commission yesterday:- We received this reply, today:- For your/our convenience,  the link to “Non-Compliance Finder.” For your/our convenience, the link to “find a service … Continue reading

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Some nonsense

One of our readers reports that he can’t stop a tune from going over and over in his head, but he doesn’t know it’s name and he’s only ever seen/heard a chicken performing it – use this link to view. Can any … Continue reading

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