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Nursing students are rejecting careers in aged care. A staffing crisis is coming

Nursing students are rejecting careers in aged care. A staffing crisis is coming

Nursing students often opt out of aged care after their work placement. No amount of downstream reform will undo that first impression of an...

26.08.2026 9

The Conversation

Samantha Heath

As people live longer and healthier, nurse training needs to respond to avoid ageist attitudes

Ageism influences how people’s health concerns are interpreted. Symptoms can be dismissed as normal ageing, and older people don’t receive the...

18.11.2025 20

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Samantha Heath