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March 1 marks two years since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s shocking final report was tabled in Parliament. The Royal Commission was a damning assessment of an aged care system in crisis. After years of ignorance, ...

Experts have sounded the alarm on the growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, increasingly posing a risk for aged care facilities. The new report from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and CSIRO warned Australia of a looming ...

As a sector, aged care has a breadth of responsibility that sets it apart. Supporting not only older people’s daily activities, living arrangements, and social needs but also attending to many of their health-related care needs. For aged care clients ...

A research team is calling for the government to fund pets in aged care to improve residents' mental health. The University of South Australia (UniSA) published its study on implementing foster cats into aged care earlier this year. UniSA researcher and project ...

An aged care provider has spearheaded a palliative care program to raise the sector's awareness and increase support for family members. Not-for-profit organisation HammondCare has been trialling 'The Last Days' program over the past year and will officially launch the ...

Ian Yates has been appointed as the new interim inspector-general of aged care. The brand-new position and the Office of the Interim Inspector General have been set up pending the passage of legislation to establish the permanent Inspector General and Office, which is ...

The Fair Work Commission has ruled a 15 per cent pay rise for nearly all aged care workers, including personal care and recreational staff, effective in full from June 30. The umpire's decision this Tuesday rebuked the government's plan to ...

Dementia has overtaken coronary heart disease as the leading cause of disease burden, injury and premature death among Australians aged 65 and older. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released its updated Dementia in Australia report today, which ...

Prime minister Anthony Albanese has said increased spending on aged care would mean 'some sacrifices need to be made', avoiding the question of whether Labor is planning to raise taxes. The risk of a tax increase became even more likely ...

British nurses are staging a 48-hour strike and 'won't back down' in a bitter row with the government over wages and nurse-to-patient ratios. Members of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) have walked off their jobs six times since December ...