Day five of the aged care royal commission saw a set of tense exchanges between counsel assisting Dr Timothy McEvoy and Leading Age Services Australia chief executive Sean Rooney. Rooney was taken to task by McEvoy over a number of ...

Properly staffing aged care facilities with an adequate nursing skill mix and at least four hours and 18 minutes per-patient per-day care minimum would not cost the sector anything more than it currently outlays. That’s according to a report presented ...

The second day of the aged care royal commission threw up a few ageing stats and a few gripes in another day where the background problems are being laid bare for commissioners Lynelle Briggs and Richard Tracey. On the first ...

“I’m sure if I had taken Bob to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the state he was in, I would have been reported to the police.” That’s how Oakden whistleblower Barbara Spriggs recounted the injuries her late husband sustained at the ...

If nurse and independent candidate for the Victorian federal seat of Indi, Helen Haines, makes it to Canberra this year, we can be sure she won’t fall foul of last year’s most popular piece of the constitution: section 44. As ...

The scores are in and for those waiting to see the awesome power of a Royal Commission in action, the final blow seemed no more than a jab. The final report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, ...

Alternating air pressure mattresses (APAMs), not two-hourly repositioning, is the key to preventing bed sores. What’s more, the constant mandated repositioning of residents in aged care could be a form of unintentional abuse and ultimately unlawful. This is according to ...

Government figures show there are more than 69,000 older Australians waiting for their approved level package, and who are without an interim package, as at 30 September last year. Although the Federal Government announced an additional 14,000 higher care packages ...