New research by industry super fund HESTA shows that the Australian aged care sector will miss out on a significant opportunity to grow the aged care workforce if there is not an adequate national effort to improve wages and conditions ...

Uniting Aged Care recently celebrated the opening of its new Amala aged care home in Canberra. Following their small scale 'household model' of care, the 124-bed home aims to give residents greater freedom as they live in households with 18-20 ...

There is compelling evidence that the human rights of older people continue to be violated globally. Never has this reality been more clearly exposed than through the pandemic period. People have been discriminated against because of their age in relation ...

The most significant budget for a generation was handed down this week. After years of debate about how we should go about caring for our elders, now and into the future, this budget was to be the answer. Much like ...

A new project led by Edith Cowan University is investigating how CCTV could be used to improve the safety and wellbeing of residents in aged care homes. A survey and interviews will canvas opinion from the public as well as residential ...

Meaningful Ageing Australia has launched a new resource to assist the aged care workforce better deliver whole-person-centred care. The Multifaith Practices resource is an Australian edition of a Canadian publication called Multi-faith Practices: Guidelines for Caregivers which was published in 2014 ...

Australia’s aged-care system is in a state of a disaster. The aged care royal commission’s final report, released last month, is just the latest in a decades-long string of depressing reports and inquiries exposing horrific abuse, neglect, and systemic failures. ...

In a fortnight, the government will reveal its Budget response to the royal commission’s final report, and worker and consumer representatives are this week ramping up their calls for government to act now. It’s not too much The Australian Nursing ...

‘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 ...