Welcome to Think: Health. This week on the program, we are looking at care for the older people in our population- both in emergency situations, and at the end of life.

First on the show, we talk to Dr Jane Phillips about the state of palliative care in Australia. With the population aging, it’s a discussion we need to have.

Second, how nurses view older people in the emergency department. We speak to Jane Stein-Parbury about the struggle nurses have to move older patients on to the relevant department, and their own struggle balancing nursing care with time deadlines.