Maggie Keswick Jencks lived with advanced cancer for two years. During that time, she and her husband Charles Jencks worked closely with her medical team, which included oncology nurse Laura Lee, now Maggie’s chief executive, to develop a new approach to cancer care.
Bobby discusses the variation between how people in different countries rate their current healthcare services, and how this relates to their concern about the future of the services.
Up to a fifth of health expenditure makes little or no contribution to improving people’s health. In some cases, it even results in worse health outcomes.
A reorganisation of healthcare systems is needed to increase the provision of care at a local level, supporting the management of chronic disease and mental illness within primary care settings, and thus reducing the need for disruptive hospital interventions.
In 2016, a University of Melbourne Hallmark Ageing Research Initiative seeding grant provided the opportunity to examine which characteristics of residential aged-care (RAC) facility workplace design contribute to building an engaged, inclusive and resilient workforce.