2020 will be a big year for the aged care sector. Further scrutiny will come in the form of the continued Aged Care Royal Commission’s final report in November. What is less likely to make headlines are some of the ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has taken the extraordinary step of releasing a statement contradicting claims by aged care minister Richard Colbeck that suggested the commission recommended privatisation of the ACAT assessment process. Since November, media ...

Aged care businesses need to create strategies for achieving sustainable financial returns, now more than ever. As stressed by the Royal Commission’s findings, they need to do so while delivering greater value for customers, and meeting the social needs of ...

When the time comes, will you be ready to leave? Will you be of sound enough mind to tell others how you’d like to go?  The truth is, few of us are. Just 3 per cent of Australians over 65 have ...

Arms raised aloft, bent at the elbow, the women in the front row twist their hands quickly in near unison, as if screwing in a lightbulb, while the rest of the crowd clap the speaker. One of the women gets ...

The royal commission’s interim report, titled simply Neglect, paints a grim picture of a sector devoid of caring and emotion and concerned only with the idea of itself as an “industry” that has “consumers” whose value is “defined by the ...

“I sadly haven’t been surprised by the revelations of the royal commission. I know this is going to sound a bit weird, but it’s been a bit of a relief for me that, finally, it’s getting the attention that it ...

Perhaps the most damaging side effect of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is that instead of dealing with the problems of the aged care system, we have a de facto policy of ‘wait and see’. Actions ...