Up to 139,000 aged care workers intend to leave the industry within the next three years according to a new workforce survey, with many staff holding serious doubts about incoming reform. The CompliSpace Aged Care Workforce Report was published on Monday ...

Regularly doing household chores and having daily visits from friends and family could help to reduce one's risk of developing dementia, a new study suggests. Researchers analysed health data from over 500,000 people participating in the UK Biobank, a long-term ...

The number of COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care homes are trending down for the first time in weeks, according to Australia’s weekly aged care report.  As of August 5 there were 952 active outbreaks in aged care homes nationally, down ...

The Albanese government has passed its first piece of major aged care legislation, enshrining an updated code of conduct for providers, a five star rating system for residential care homes, and mapping out the details of a new funding regime. ...

There are nearly 10,000 aged care residents and staff infected with COVID-19 in Australia. Recent data from the Department of Health and Aged Care has shown there are currently 9906 active COVID-19 cases in 1064 residential aged-care facilities across the ...

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has become emotional speaking about two of her constituents in parliament on Wednesday. The Lilley MP spoke about Pat and Jack Cook as she introduced the first of two pieces of legislation to make changes to the aged care sector. ...

A Sydney aged care home where 19 residents died from COVID-19 turned into a place of “chaos and dysfunctionality” due to lack of staffing and poor communication, an inquest has heard. Anglicare’s Newmarch House saw a 65-day coronavirus outbreak between ...

A woman who tried to kill her elderly father on his request by suffocating him in a nursing home north of Brisbane acted “impulsively” in a moment of poor judgment, a court has been told. Rebecca Louise Burden last week ...

Aged care reform will be a top priority of Australia's new parliament as the government extends military support for over a thousand residential homes battling Covid-19 outbreaks. Prime minister Anthony Albanese is set to unveil two major pieces of aged ...

The government will fast-track the processing of 60,000 permanent visa applications by overseas skilled workers in a bid to fill urgent staff shortages in health and aged care. The move comes as research shows that labour shortages in aged care ...