Aged care’s benefits extend beyond residents and families to the whole community; it’s time to make sure people know that.  It is astounding the quality and diversity of work the Australian aged-care sector does. Why then does consumer research and ...

In part one of a two-part series, Benetas chief executive Sandra Hills and project manager Helen Brightman ask the question that many aged care providers are not yet prepared to confront  – when will we be ready for consumer-directed care ...

Australia’s growing aged population and shrinking tax base is creating an uncertain future for the aged care sector.  Since 2010, 115,000 taxpayers have left the workforce. By 2050, it is estimated there will be fewer than three working-age people to ...

As the states relinquish their role in home care services, the federal government must take urgent steps to retain the valuable community resources that have been developed in the sector.  The year 2014 will be the first of the Abbott ...

Better education for students and more nursing leadership are two ingredients that are essential to providing a better future for dementia patients and their carers and families.  The current nursing workforce does not have enough capacity to provide the care ...

Despite opposition from doctors, Australia is now officially on the path to allow a broader range of health professionals to prescribe medicines.  Nursing associations have applauded the health ministers’ approval of the Health Professionals Prescribing Pathway (HPPP), labelling it a ...

The Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing is to be scrapped as the Coalition government prepares to deliver on its promise to reduce cost and inefficient regulation for Australian businesses and communities. The panel, which was just six months off delivering ...

Aged-care stakeholders discuss the new government’s policy and how it relates to what the sector needs.  Just two days out from the federal election, the Coalition released its policy for the ageing population of Australia. The Coalition’s Policy for Healthy ...