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Two more Australians have died of COVID-19 over the weekend taking the national death toll to 108, while two Melbourne aged care homes have recorded new cases in the double digits. The recent outbreak has brought total cases across Victoria ...

The aged care worker retention bonus announced by the government in March has not gone down as well as Richard Colbeck might have imagined. Originally it was announced as a payment of up to $800 after tax per quarter – ...

Workforce is the lifeblood of care and our people are the nexus of thriving, meaningful relationships between older Australians, their families and friends. It flows through the generations, particularly as we work to protect and support our elders, their families, ...

The coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne continues to grow as the city goes back into a six-week lockdown while five new infections have been linked to Victorian aged care services. From Thursday, residents in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire, north of ...

Aged care residents died at three times the normal rate in the UK during the COVID-19 peak in April, according to official government statistics. On April 12, 1300 people died in care homes in comparison with 407 the previous year ...

Over 17,000 people with dementia went missing in Japan last year and 245 of those people were never found. Data released by the National Police Agency shows that in 2019 a total of 17,479 people with dementia, or with suspected ...

Poor communication, poor training and a lack of reviews are the main reasons that two-thirds of people with dementia are prescribed the wrong medications, new research has found. Led by Monash University’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS), a ...

Sunday saw a grim milestone reached as global cases of COVID-19 hit 10 million according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That statistic coincides with the tragic number of deaths now recorded which stands at 500,000 people worldwide during the ...