Mike Rungie
…at the intersection of good lives and aged care
Publications
Good older lives
Older life is in the transitions. (Aged Care Insite, 12/23)
Why our need to learn peaks again in retirement. (Aged Care Insite, 7/22)
Nudging an ageing Australia away from retirement and aged care. (Aged Care Insite, 3/22)
Forget ageing well, it’s what we do that counts. (Aged Care Insite, 12/21)
Where have all our elders gone? The wilful destruction of the world's most loved brand. (Aged Care Insite, 3/21)
Does anyone really know what a good frail life looks like? (Aged Care Insite, 10/20)
Aged care services
Aged care’s love affair with institutions (Abridged version published in Aged Care Insite 3/24)
Isn’t aged care quality meant to delight us? (Aged Care Insite, 9/23)
Where on earth are aged care CEOs taking us? (Aged Care Insite, 8/23)
Frail lives matter: Opinion (Aged Care Insite, 6/23)
Aged care directors are failing in their duty (governing for good aged care) (Aged Care Insite, 3/23)
The modern elder customer journey (Aged Care Insite, 12/22)
Get busy living or get busy dying. (Aged Care Insite, 5/22)
Is aged care an ageist institution? (Aged Care Insite, 10/21)
Retirement Villages... what do you buy if you don’t want the retirement or the village? (Aged Care Insite, 6/21)
Can we look forward to much better post-Covid residential aged care? (Aged Care Insite, 7/20)
Coronavirus highlights the strengths and weaknesses of aged care. (Aged Care Insite, 5/20)
Aged care sector
More of the same: response to the Taskforce report (Abridged version published in Aged Care Insite 3/24)
Enough of reforming aged care… modern elders want something different. (Aged Care Insite, 2/23)
Where’s the gain from merging the aged care peaks? (Aged Care Insite, 10/22)
Why no outcry over record aged care deaths? (Aged Care Insite, 9/22)
Better pay, more training, same crappy job: nursing homes under Labor. (Aged Care Insite, 4/22)
Zero neglect by 2030 in aged care? … not while we’re all deniers. (Aged Care Insite, 1/22)
We need productivity gains in aged care… but what if the biggest gains make the least profit? (Aged Care Insite, 9/21)
Intergenerational Report 2021… same old, same old. (Aged Care Insite, 7/21)
What one aged care message should government hear ahead of it's next budget? (Aged Care Insite, 5/21)
The Aged Care Royal Commission report: what the Empire wants us to do and what we should really do. (Aged Care Insite, 3/21)
Royal commission... just give us Recommendation 55 (d). (Aged Care Insite, 11/20)
Book chapters / Reports
The wounding of older people, and their most common wounds. Rungie and Wolfensberger. Chapter 2 of “Ageing and the Good Things of Life: The Application of Social Role Valorisation to Supporting People as They Age” (Valor Press, 2020)
Roles for older people, the ultimate prize of social role valorisation. Rungie. Chapter 7 of “Ageing and the Good Things of Life: The Application of Social Role Valorisation to Supporting People as They Age” (Valor Press, 2020)
Roles for people in their 70s, 80s and 90s specifically relating to work, volunteering, learning, sport and networks. (churchilltrust.com.au, 2013)
Papers in preparation
Need a framework for thriving in aged care? Try Social Role Valorisation.
Where’s the incentive to innovate in aged care?
So much needs assessment, so little needs met.
The difference between good frail life centred care and person centred care.
Growing older has become the pathway to destruction.
Living the good frail life with dementia
The 14 habits of the frail life revolution
It takes a village to be a frail elder.
Selected papers by other authors
The need for oldness. John McKnight. (Centre on Ageing, Northwestern University, Vol 2, 1986)