Overview:
• In an interview with GQ magazine, Prince William opened up about his struggle over his mother Princess Diana’s death. For the past year Prince William and Catherine have been speaking up about mental health issues. In a video the pair made for Heads Together, along with Prince Harry, all three speak about why it was important to them and how speaking about such issues could work like “medicine”.
• The 2008 death of Graham Rollbusch, 70, at the Makk and McLeay nursing home is under investigation by coroner Mark Johns. Registered nurse Danilo Valdez Laurente worked on the night of Mr Rollbusch’s death, and told the coroner it was usual practice to have three staff on a night shift. When questioned by Mr Johns about how Mr Palmer was monitored while all three staff members conducted rounds, Mr Laurente conceded they could not watch him continuously.
• The suicide rate for men aged 85 and older was 39.3 per 100,000 people. In women of the same age, it was 5.7. Monash University Professor Paul Komesaroff said a lack of support was partly to blame for poor mental health in many older Australians.