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Diagnosed with dementia at 55, Phil Hazell is now a passionate advocate for spreading awareness of the disease.  Each year, over 4.6 million people worldwide are diagnosed with a form of dementia. While Phil's father also had dementia, though a different type, ...

A year-long government trial of closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring in aged care has been scrapped after it generated more than 12,000 false reports, according to an independent review. Artificial intelligence technology, cameras and sound devices were installed in residents' rooms ...

Improving access to TAFE training and boosting skilled migration to increase the supply of workers into the struggling health and aged care sector were major outcomes from the government's Jobs and Skills summit.  Nearly 150 peak unions, business leaders and ...

A new program introduced by an aged care provider is helping prevent falls of community-dwelling older people transitioning from hospital to home.  The project, 'Being your Best', by aged care provider Bolton Clarke aims to reduce or reverse frailty by ...

Two sisters working in aged care are sharing their stories in the hope of breaking society's negative perspective of the sector. Amy Holton and Tanesha Brown have found their dream jobs at Central Coast's residential care home Alino Living. But ...

Victoria’s plan to pay for nurses' and midwives' studies in exchange for working in public hospitals has raised concerns for the staff-stricken aged care sector. Victorian premier Dan Andrews announced in August that over 10,000 students will receive undergraduate scholarships ...

More aged care residents have died with Covid in the past 10 weeks than in the entirety of 2020 and2021 combined, recent Health Department data shows. Hardly surprising. If large numbers of people live communally in shared spaces, that we ...

As severe workforce shortages cripple the industry, rural and remote aged care homes may have been fighting the hardest to keep their heads above water - and it's not over yet. Upcoming legislation will mandate 24/7 registered nurses by July ...

A landmark study reveals leisure in aged care homes has become a last priority as an understaffed workforce struggles to meet residents' basic physical needs. In surveying three aged care homes, researchers found that unbalanced staff-to-resident ratios resulted in residents ...

Close to 60 per cent of Australia's workforce say the reforms in the new aged care bills are impossible to realise in the sector's current climate. The CompliSpace report surveyed over a thousand staff and revealed that nearly 90 per ...