Leading nursing experts want to make aged care the profession’s top priority for the year ahead.  Nursing organisations and professionals from around Australia have agreed: aged care will be one of the biggest issues on the agenda in 2014. This ...

It is essential that we expand the role of nurses in the delivery of primary healthcare if we are to meet Australia’s future health needs.  Our healthcare system is under threat. Our ageing population and the way we live are ...

Remember these ‘Cs’ for guiding workers and the organisation as both evolve in coming years.  The foundation for success for workplace leaders can be built around three critical beliefs: people need something to believe in, someone to believe in and ...

Blokes may be the answer to an ageing workforce.  The release of the Productivity Commission’s report An Ageing Australia: Preparing for the Future in late November raises questions once again about the need for new policies as the population gets ...

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 ...