An aged care nurse under investigation for working while she had coronavirus symptoms and flouting lockdown restrictions is now being linked to the COVID-19 death of a 30-year-old man. The nurse’s COVID-19 diagnosis sparked a health scare at a Rockhampton ...

There have been no residential aged care deaths due to COVID-19 in either South Korea or Hong Kong, despite both regions having thousands of positive cases. Experts told British MPs and members of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee ...

A woman in a Victorian aged care home has again tested negative to COVID-19 after the facility went into lockdown earlier this week over an initial positive test. HammondCare’s Caulfield Village shut its doors after the woman tested positive on ...

An aged care nurse working in Rockhampton has been called out by the Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk for continuing to show up to work while symptomatic and awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test. “Honestly, a nurse should know better,” ...

The peak bodies and consumer groups that represent the aged care sector have released their finalised industry code for guiding providers through the coronavirus pandemic and allowing families to be reunited with loved ones. The sector has been divided on ...

Aged care providers remain steadfast in their belief that visitor restrictions are supported by those in the sector and the wider community, and have released more research to back it up. Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) yesterday said its national ...

The United Workers Union has launched a national campaign to get aged care providers and the federal government to fund paid COVID-19 leave for front-line aged care staff. In light of major COVID-19 outbreaks at several aged care homes, which ...

When just one patient passed away as a result of COVID-19 infection in a Sydney aged care home, it was considered “a system failure”. To date, our country has lost 27 of its aged care community residents to the virus. ...