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In the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no argument that the most vulnerable sector is the elderly and aged care. When most people are home self-isolating, aged care workers, along with their health colleagues, are on the ...

Federal mininster for aged care Richard Colbeck has refuted allegations made by the ABC that no inspections of nursing homes have been carried out since the outbreak of COVID-19, and that there has been a lack of commitment to controlling ...

An online educational video ‘COVID-19 and Aged Care’ has been made available as a resource for staff working in residential aged care, home care or retirement living. Created by Altura Learning, the video features guidance from microbiologist Margaret Jennings on ...

The Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) is calling for a national audit into malnutrition in aged care to gauge the true extent of the problem and understand the needs of affected aged care residents. DAA CEO Robert Hunt said data ...

There’s a lot of rhetoric in the aged care sector about how best to reform it, admits Danielle Ballantine, but she reckons her Sydney-based organisation is heading in the right direction thanks to an approach focused on simplifying the user ...

Australia’s retirement village operators are being encouraged to sign up to the new Retirement Living Code of Conduct, which aims to safeguard the interests of current and future retirement residents. Around 1000 retirement villages have already preregistered to participate in ...

The Department of Health announced the 2020 ACAR late last year. The next ACAR is expected to open in March 2020, and this time the department has given some notice to providers to get a head start on preparing their ...

There is no getting away from the fact that almost every facet of our lives is being transformed all the time, and this can be a challenging experience in pretty much every industry. Aged care is a particularly interesting area ...