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The ACAR 2020 surprise announcement just prior to Christmas offers a golden opportunity for our industry amid ongoing challenges and uncertainty experienced in the past year. Although the Department of Health’s (DoH) latest offer is reduced from that planned prior ...

For too long aged care services have focused on balancing budgets while compromising on client care. Unfortunately, the way funding is allocated and providers are evaluated has incentivised a budget-driven mindset, whereas I believe a person-centred model would provide better ...

Silent disco provider Moove and Groove has released early findings of research conducted with the Australian Catholic University that shows promising links between its listening program and the wellbeing of aged care residents living with dementia. The preliminary results were ...

The coronavirus has been described as a cunning and invisible enemy by virologists and politicians. They should know what it takes! As its genetic code compels it to continually reproduce to survive, the virus effectively seeks out whatever opportunity it ...

Many of the values aged care facilities seek in their workers can be found in former retail, hospitality and tourism employees.

In these 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 ...