Healthcare problems and solutions in Australia

Again two unrelated but complementary items popped up this morning. The first is an interview with Rod Young, the chief executive of the Aged Care Association of Australia about the problems of healthcare in Australia that will affect the ‘baby boom’ generation and the second is an article by Prof. Branko Celler, chief executive officer and chairman of TeleMedCare, the Australian telehealth company spun out of the University of New South Wales.

1. Healthcare restructure needed for Baby Boomers (World Today)

2. A solution ignored: telehealth (Science Alert Australia and New Zealand)