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The 2026 campaign theme, Connection grows in the spaces and opportunities we intentionally create for one another, provides a useful prompt for aged care services to consider how connection is supported through everyday care and service delivery.
Social isolation is a significant issue for older people, affecting around one in five older Australians and approximately one-third of people living in residential aged care. Aged Care Research and Industry Innovation Australia provides evidence summaries, practice resources and aged-care-specific research to help workers identify and respond to social isolation among people receiving residential and home care services.
Residential and community aged care providers may wish to use these resources to review how they identify people at risk, incorporate social connection into care planning, and link older people with suitable community activities and supports.
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