Workforce shortages present a significant challenge for the aged care industry. The increasing demand of work in the field, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic management requirements, highlights an urgent need for a review of the aged care crisis. Although the ...

Greg Hunt has pointed the finger at one group of people over the takeup of booster shots. The Health Minister has been slammed for failing to know how many aged care residents who died from Covid-19 during the Omicron wave had received their ...

Aged care residents faced an increased risk of abuse, delays in clinical assessments and forced admission into care during COVID-19, a new landmark report has detailed. The Older Person’s Advocacy Network (OPAN) released the first public insight into the experiences ...

A new independent review into the handling of COVID-19 in residential care has identified the key factors which make staff and residents more vulnerable to severe outbreaks. The report, titled ‘No Time for Complacency’, contained a number of in-depth interviews, ...

A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...

The federal government has faced continued scrutiny this week over vaccination rates in the aged care sector and not being able to accurately say how many workers are fully vaccinated, as the number of COVID cases in the latest outbreak ...

Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck has dismissed “emotive” criticism of the sluggish vaccine rollout as Health Department officials were slammed for lacking key data on Victoria. Appearing before a senate committee on Tuesday, Colbeck also revealed one resident at Melbourne’s Arcare facility, who ...

Aged care has been plunged back into the centre of a COVID-19 crisis as a staff member has tested positive for the virus in Victoria. After Victorians headed back into lockdown for seven days at the end of last week, ...

A sobering graph has exposed Australia’s failings when it comes it administering the COVID-19 vaccine. Our World In Data revealed just how far behind the nation is with its rollout as countries like the US, UK, Canada and Spain continue ...

A NSW aged care worker has had her unfair dismissal claim rejected after she was sacked for refusing to have a flu jab, The Guardian reported. Jennifer Kimber, a receptionist with Imlay House in Pambula on the NSW south coast, ...