One of Australia’s biggest aged care providers will be asked by the royal commission how it responded to one of its workers assaulting an elderly resident on camera. The footage was taken in Clarence Hausler’s bedroom at Mitcham Residential Care ...

Maggots were found in the mouth of a respite patient at an aged care facility in Broome and the incident was reported anonymously to the aged care complaints commissioner. The Royal Commission’s Broome hearing was told that during the course of ...

It’s possible an aged care worker has comforted your loved one before you knew they were upset, laughed with them before you heard the joke and was the first person to wish them a happy birthday. And now, providers are reminding people to give thanks. ...

Australia’s only euthanasia laws are in place but it could take weeks, if not months, for the first person to die under the Victorian scheme and maybe much longer for the public to know. Terminally-ill Victorian adults in intolerable pain ...

Victorian pensioners are needing treatment for hypothermia, after suffering dangerously low body temperatures in their own homes, in a “concerning” trend. A study of hypothermic emergency presentations between July 7 2009 and September 1 2016 to Alfred Health was prompted ...

An outreach service running out of Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital in Sydney is saving the NSW government $2 million a year and reducing pressure on their emergency department. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, there are approximately 270,559 people ...

Spoken word poetry is something often associated with college-age adults but an aged care provider is helping seniors try their hand at the artform. Fifteen seniors will work with poet and literary performer David Stavanger as part of a new ...

Aged care advocate Heather Mansell-Brown is in a Brisbane court this week, accused of defamation. Mansell-Brown is being sued by Maxine Noone, a clinical care manager at the Yallambe Centenary Retirement Village in Queensland. The case relates to a number ...