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As the Federal Budget looms, Minister for Aged Care Ken Wyatt has announced $46.1 million to continue a scheme to help combat loneliness and social isolation among people in aged care. The funding for the national Community Visitors Scheme will ...

It might seem far-fetched to think that there could be any connections between caring for an older person and the current Banking Royal Commission in Australia. Banking, after all, is about money and how it’s managed. It’s concerned with big ...

Australian providers will now have access to a successful Tasmanian approach to building the workforce, with Aged & Community Services Australia’s (ACSA) launch of a new Workforce and Industry Development Unit. The new unit brings together a range of state-based ...

The aged care sector is facing a potential shortfall of 80,000 workers over the next five years. That’s one of the key findings of a new HESTA report that draws on its more than 200,000 members working in the space ...

The aged care industry needs new blood. An estimated 60 per cent of the existing workforce will reach retirement age over the next 15 years and recent research from HESTA has revealed the sector is facing a potential shortfall of ...

Australia has its fair share of floods, bushfires and cyclones, and for carers of people with dementia there is an extra layer of anxiety and potential danger. With this in mind, QUT has partnered with the Red Cross to help ...

From banking to private health, tertiary education, utilities, telecommunications and superannuation, over the last few decades Australia has seen the deregulation of whole sectors. Through these major changes, we have seen consolidation and a state of flux as sector participants ...

Older adults are being urged to consider age a risk factor for cancer, following research that revealed the link is largely obscured in media representations. Published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, the University of Glasgow study held ...