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Aug- 2025 -18 AugustTech & Innovation
ARIIA grants to boost innovation
Fourteen aged care providers across Australia are joining forces to address critical issues facing the sector, thanks to a new…
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18 AugustPolicy & Reform
The state of our care economy explained
A co-author of the Productivity Commission's recent interim report into the care economy explains their findings, and outlines how Australia…
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14 AugustPolicy & Reform
‘Care central to our lives and economy’: PC
The Australian Productivity Commission has released its ‘Delivering quality care more efficiently’ interim report, making a host of recommendations to…
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14 AugustIndustry News
No pressure to vaccinate as flu cases soar
Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has said he was comfortable with current flu vaccination rates and would “deal with” the…
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14 AugustAI
Why is uptake of AI in healthcare slow?
Proponents of the technology say that over the coming decades, AI has the potential to save hundreds of thousands, even…
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11 AugustWorkforce
Aged care grads caught in diploma scam, again
Even more aged care workers are likely to lose their qualifications after another Vocational Educational Training (VET) provider was cancelled by…
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11 AugustIndustry News
Labor pledges to protect PBS from cuts
Last week, President Donald Trump wrote to 17 major pharmaceutical companies in the US demanding they lower their prices for…
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11 AugustPolicy & Reform
More centenarians means more pressure on aged care
Data from the Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages reveals the amount of people aged over 100 who passed…
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7 AugustWorkforce
Superheroes: ACED thanks aged care workers
Today, on Aged Care Employee Day, we say thank you the more than 400,000 invaluable aged care workers making a…
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7 AugustIndustry News
Bupa seeks to strike-out class action
Bupa has denied promising to provide care that meets the minimum standards required by the Aged Care Act and sought…
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7 AugustFunding
$30m to rural and regional aged care workforce
In a bid to bring more than 6,000 extra care workers to the bush, Labor has announced it will distribute…
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4 AugustPolicy & Reform
Aged Care Rules final draft released
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has released the finale draft of new Aged Care Rules that will guide…
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4 AugustClinical Practice
Medication laws tightened for Vic aged care
In an Australian first, the Victorian government has introduced legislation to ensure only authorised health professionals can administer certain medications…
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4 AugustNutrition
Healthy diet slows accumulation of comorbidities – study
A Swedish study has found that diet may make all the difference when it comes to developing chronic illnesses later…
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Jul- 2025 -31 JulyPolicy & Reform
Greens to chair aged care delay inquiry
Labor’s decision to delay the commencement of its “once in a generation” aged care reform, from July 1 to November…
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31 JulyIndustry News
DPP loses appeal against taser cop sentence
Clare Nowland’s family are “struggling” to comprehend how the ex-cop who said “bugger it” before fatally tasering her will not…
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31 JulyDementia
New Alzheimer’s drug works 3x faster
A new Alzheimer’s drug has been hailed as a major breakthrough after clinical trials showed it could clear the harmful…
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28 JulyIn-home Care
Labor stands by delay to 20k packages
The Albanese government has said it will not release any extra home care packages before the commencement of the new…
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28 JulyIndustry News
Photo of 70yo that shook state ‘to the core’
A nurse at one of NSW’s busiest hospitals says staff are “burnt out” amid an unprecedented winter surge, after “frightening”…
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28 JulyIndustry News
$135m deal: SEQ aged care company sold
Regis Aged Care has acquired four Rockpool Residential Aged Care homes in south east Queensland, bringing the Regis aged care…
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24 JulyDementia
‘Slip, slop, slap’ for brain health needed
UNSW Scientia Professor and brain health expert Henry Brodaty has addressed the National Press Club of Australia in demand of…
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24 JulyIndustry News
Disused aged care site to help unhoused
Aged care provider Whiddon’s disused Easton Park facility is being converted into temporary housing, backed by government funding. The project…
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24 JulyWorkforce
Aged care nurse placement program success
An intensive clinical placement initiative that has already placed dozens of nursing graduates into aged care jobs in Qld is…
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21 JulyEnvironment & Design
Iconic Sydney aged care makeover masterplan
The RSL ANZAC Village retirement and aged care complex at Narrabeen plans to modernise and upgrade its facilities with its…
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21 JulySpecialty
A third of older people have no one to call
When a crisis hits, 3 in 10 older Australians don’t have anyone to call. For those over 65, 1 in…
