I do the grocery shopping in our family. It’s not easy: sometimes I can be found, all alone, in a supermarket aisle confronted by the sheer choice in front of me. For example, take tofu (for my daughter). Which tofu? ...

COTA Australia has this week praised the Senate’s interim report into South Australia’s Oaken aged care facility, and says it highlights the urgent need to stamp out toxic cultures and systemic failures in the sector. Chief executive Ian Yates said there ...

A new voice for nurses might be headed to federal parliament. Former registered nurse and current union leader Ged Kearney will run for the federal seat of Batman. President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Kearney will contest the ...

Animal Welfare League Australia (AWLA) has urged the aged care sector to embrace pet-friendly services to help older adults remain with their own animals for as long as possible. Citing its 2017 Pets in Aged Care Study, the group said only 18 ...

The cost of providing health and residential care for people with dementia in Australia is potentially higher than previously estimated. That’s according to research that employed a predominantly bottom-up approach as opposed to a top-down, population costing approach, which in ...

It is time for a national POA register to protect older Australians from economic crime. Enduring powers of attorney (POA) allow mentally capable adults (the principals) to authorise one or more persons (their attorneys) to do anything on their behalf ...

What can we learn from overseas experience with care markets? For those interested in developing Australian aged care into what the Aged Care Roadmap has termed “a consumer-driven market-based system”, it is time to look to the US. This market has ...

Australia’s aged care sector has recently undergone what is arguably its most profound period of reform, with new legislation coming in earlier this year that affords clients and their families unprecedented choice regarding the facilities in which they reside. This ...