‘When too much sport is barely enough’ is a much loved satirical credo made famous by the Australian sports comedians Roy Slaven and HG Nelson as they send up obsessed Australian sports fanatics. Something eerily similar seems applicable to the eight ...

The nation's COVID-19 vaccination rollout has become more complicated over the past week after questions were raised about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. After reports of a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots were raised by ...

The peak body for doctors has said that Australia could be saving $21 billion by eliminating avoidable hospital admissions from aged care homes and older people in the community. “The potentially preventable hospital admissions – just one aspect of the ...

Twelve aged care consumer peak organisations have come together and issued a joint plan for reform of the aged care sector. Led by the Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia, the groups issued a response to the royal commission's final ...

In an Australian first, the South Australian Government has announced that it will trial CCTV in aged care homes in a bid to stop potential abuse in the system. SA Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Stephen Wade, declared that a ...

Nearly a month on from the release of the final report from the aged care royal commission we are still largely in the dark on how the government might seek to change the sector going forward. Professor Jo Ibrahim, the ...

“Get cracking.” That’s the overwhelming call from advocacy groups in response to the release of the aged care royal commission’s final report. Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia said the report’s release places the onus on the Morrison Government to ...

We’ve lived with it for so long, it was beginning to seem like the Royal Commission on Aged Care would always be with us. But now that the astonishing, apparently never-ending series of revelations that shocked the nation will no ...

The Aged Care Royal Commission has handed its final report to the government. And fellow nurses, haven’t we been waiting for this for a long time. For decades, we’ve been raising our voices, telling anyone who would listen that the ...

Researchers from Macquarie University have identified the three most important care needs to people living in residential aged care. After conducting a number of visits to homes the research found they are: being treated with respect by staff members, opportunities ...