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Deaths caused by COVID-19 in Australia surpassed 1000 people on Monday after the escalating crisis in NSW recorded four deaths. Overnight NSW registered 1,290 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and as it stands, there have been 20,061 locally acquired ...

The 2021 HESTA Excellence Awards were held on Wednesday August 25 in a virtual ceremony celebrating excellence in the allied health, aged care, community and disability services sectors. Winners were crowned for work such as reducing ear disease in Aboriginal ...

With several states across the country currently in different phases of lockdown depending on their number of COVID-19 cases, the uncertainty caused by the virus continues. We can only hope then, that this time the situation will not be as ...

People with boring jobs have a higher risk of dementia according to researchers at University College London (UCL). An investigation of seven large cohort studies suggests that people with mentally taxing jobs have a lower risk of dementia, as proteins ...

Elderly residents at Australia’s worst single-site outbreak, St Basil’s Home for the Aged, were dehydrated and “starving” after the entire workforce was stood down last year, a court has heard. The Coroners Court of Victoria will investigate the circumstances of 50 ...

Loneliness and social isolation can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in older people, new research has found. The study of 11,498 Australian men and women over the age of 70, which was co-founded by the Heart Foundation, looked at ...

Front line workers in private aged care facilities are “nowhere near” being fully vaccinated against coronavirus, Daniel Andrews has revealed. The Commonwealth government runs the private aged care sector in Victoria, while the Andrews government controls all public nursing homes. The Victorian Premier said vaccination rates ...

St Vincent’s Care Services (SVCS) recently struck a deal to buy three residential aged care facilities previously owned by PresCare. The acquisition – which serves 390 residential aged care beds, with 76 beds  in dedicated special care units for residents diagnosed ...

NSW will introduce Covid-19 rapid antigen testing across aged care facilities in greater Sydney in a bid to identify cases before they escalate into outbreaks. The commonwealth announced on Sunday it would roll out the new testing at the Uniting Bankstown Aged Care Facility on Monday, ...

A 90-year-old aged care resident who woke to a man sexually assaulting her in a sickening attack at a Victorian nursing home managed to fight back against her attacker, police have revealed. The woman woke to find the man sexually assaulting her at the ...