Rethinking Restriction in Residential Aged Care: Dis/Abling Movement and Relations in the Time of COVID-19.

Restricting movement is a major focus in policy directives to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in aged care homes. In this article, we rethink dominant framing of restriction through a critical examination of the politics of good care and ethnographic attention to spatial extensions and interdependencies between residents, care workers, and assistive technologies. Drawing on ethnographic observations in two South Australian care facilities, analysis of aged care policies and national inquiries into aged care, and relevant media reporting, we examine how restriction to movement, misconceptualized as a good form of care, has suppressed residents' physical and social needs and ruptured abling assemblages of resident mobility.

Application of co-design in residential aged care: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to identify the extent and nature of the existing literature on co-design with residents residing in aged care facilities.

Introduction: Involving older people in their own care is a key challenge facing the aged care sector. Co-design is an approach that focuses on involving end users in the design of services.