We exist to inspire people to want to care, enable people to properly care and enhance life through care. Because how we care for our ageing is a reflection of who we are as a nation.” This is the vision ...

Legislation for aged care’s “tough cop on the beat” has today been introduced to the lower house. Part of the Government’s response to some widely-reported failures in the delivery of aged care, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is ...

Aged care bodies have today welcomed the passage through parliament of a new set of quality standards. Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Ken Wyatt said the standards would intensify quality compliance across residential, home and remote care. “Under ...

Aged & Community Services Australia policy officer Heather Engelhardt used her presentation at this week’s ACSA conference to outline recent changes implemented by the quality agency. The focus, she said, was not about systems and processes but is now on ...

I have just returned from the World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, Canada. Like the Olympics, this is held every four years in a different part of the world. With about 5000 people registered and big-name researchers and theorists attending ...

Australia’s new leader Scott Morrison has named his ministry and while many offices will have new plaques on their doors, the aged care portfolio has retained its head in Ken Wyatt. After indicating that he would consider his position should ...

Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) along with not-for-profit aged care bodies have said there is an unsound trend in the demand and provision of home care packages, with ACSA chief executive Pat Sparrow saying there are simply not enough packages ...

Should providers be required to publish staffing ratios online? Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie introduced the idea into parliament through the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2018. The private members bill, supported by Independent MP for Indi Cathy ...