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The Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) has launched a new education program to tackle abuse of older people. The new online learning package, Abuse of the older person: eLearning program for health professionals, was developed in collaboration with Age Discrimination ...

Creative writing can deepen insights into how people living in aged care homes experience loneliness, according to a new study.  Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves, a senior lecturer of sociology at Monash University, spent six months interviewing residents living in residential aged ...

Two more residents at an aged care home in Sydney’s northwest have tested positive to Covid as fury grows about why unvaccinated staff were allowed to work there. There have now been five confirmed cases at the home, according to ...

In early June the NSW Legislative Committee published its final inquiry into the issue of chronic understaffing in aged care facilities. It found, as did the royal commission, that mandated staffing ratios and more registered nurses were urgently required. When ...

The government has elaborated on the $11 million grant program to help with getting every aged care worker vaccinated. This week Scott Morrison announced that vaccination would now be a condition of work for staff in aged care, with mid-September ...

More than 100 patients and staff have been forced into isolation after an unvaccinated student nurse worked for several days across two Sydney hospitals while infected with Covid-19. The 24-year-old worked shifts at Fairfield and Royal North Shore hospitals between ...

Perhaps the most frightening feature of the pandemic year of 2020 for those with an interest in age care was the Covid-19 mortality rate amongst the residents and staff of care homes. Caught first by the rapid international spread of ...

Former director of the Workplace Equality Agency, Libby Lyons, is set to take the reins as chair of the Aged Care Workforce Council (ACWIC). Her role will involve delivering a number of major workplace reforms across the sector. In the ...

Over half of Older Australians are reluctant to share photos online due to a fear of being ridiculed, according to new research. Earlier this month, researchers from Swinburne University ran a day-long pilot study, interviewing thirty people aged over 65 on ...

Vaccination against COVID-19 will now be mandatory for anyone working in residential aged care, the government has announced. In a late night press conference after a national cabinet meeting, PM Scott Morrison said state and territory leaders agreed that by ...