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The peak body for doctors has said that Australia could be saving $21 billion by eliminating avoidable hospital admissions from aged care homes and older people in the community. “The potentially preventable hospital admissions – just one aspect of the ...

Twelve aged care consumer peak organisations have come together and issued a joint plan for reform of the aged care sector. Led by the Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia, the groups issued a response to the royal commission's final ...

In an Australian first, the South Australian Government has announced that it will trial CCTV in aged care homes in a bid to stop potential abuse in the system. SA Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Stephen Wade, declared that a ...

Your Side, a support service for older people, and people living with disability or mental health and their carers, recently announced award winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Spicer AM as its new ambassador. Aged Care Insite spoke with Spicer to ...

Nearly a month on from the release of the final report from the aged care royal commission we are still largely in the dark on how the government might seek to change the sector going forward. Professor Jo Ibrahim, the ...

The Aged Care Royal Commission report offers a glimmer of hope into fixing our aged care system, with the Government committing almost half a billion dollars in an immediate response to the 148 recommendations. While a large part of the ...

Over five million Australians aged 15 years and over suffer with bladder or bowel control problems, a figure predicted to grow to 6.5 million by 2030, and people with incontinence suffer long-term physical and emotional impact and rarely seek help. ...

It has been several weeks since the federal government released the final report from the aged care royal commission and, with the government not set to announce its full response until the May budget, the sector has had time to ...

Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

An international network of children’s nursing experts has spent time during the last year creating a unique e-book, featuring the self penned COVID-19 experiences of children around the world. 'Our COVID-19 Artwork' contains drawings, pictures, poems and narrative from young ...