A new report has called for a yearly additional investment of $365 million for palliative care to “bring the system up to speed” and address significant “service gaps, meet future significant demand and reduce avoidable costs”. The report, which was ...

As the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety progresses towards its final report in November, we can expect many high priority areas to receive attention – funding and staffing levels and the use of chemical restraints being just ...

When just one patient passed away as a result of COVID-19 infection in a Sydney aged care home, it was considered “a system failure”. To date, our country has lost 27 of its aged care community residents to the virus. ...

Better than any consultant’s review, maybe even the royal commission, the coronavirus is highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the current aged care system. In the last month we have really appreciated that aged care is substantially resourced for all ...

In these challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no argument that the most vulnerable sector is the elderly and aged care. When most people are home self-isolating, aged care workers, along with their health colleagues, are on the ...

At a time when cruise ships are becoming writ large as heaving leviathans of deadly contagion, one couple in New Zealand has just put on the market a new venture to place the most vulnerable age group on board.

Dealing with the news media at any time is stressful for many in the aged care sector, let alone during a major crisis. But by understanding the media better, their requirements and how to avoid a few invisible traps, encounters ...

Even if we discount the current pandemic, Richard Colbeck has had a turbulent time as aged care minister. Constant criticism has come his way, from his apparent lack of knowledge of the aged care interim report in Senate questioning, to ...