The majority of Australian residential aged care facilities are operating at a loss, and the situation is even more dire in regional and remote areas. New figures from StewartBrown reveal that 60 per cent of surveyed residential facilities recorded an ...

A 75-year-old protester who struck his head on the pavement after being shoved back by police in the US city of Buffalo remains in hospital with a fractured skull, his lawyer says. Martin Gugino’s lawyer has told media outlets in ...

A man who tried to give his wife, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease, an overdose to end her life won’t go to jail. Joseph Sugar gave himself and his wife, Heather, an overdose of insulin in December last year, ...

The Australian Vocational Educational and Training (VET) sector is underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches according to an interim report released by the Productivity Commission last week. The sector costs the government $6.1 billion each year ...

Aged care homes will soon be required to report resident on resident abuse where the perpetrator has an assessed cognitive impairment. The removal of the current exemption will be part of the rollout of the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS). ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has announced it will extend the deadline for public submissions until July 31. The commission had recently announced it would expand its investigative scope to include the issues that have arisen ...

Aged care workers and providers are saying the government has broken its promise after it released further details about its retention bonus grant. In March, Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck announced $234.9 million for a COVID-19 retention bonus that ...

The NSW coroner will investigate a spate of coronavirus-related deaths at a western Sydney aged care home. Newmarch House became the centre of a virus cluster in western Sydney when about 70 people became infected and 17 residents died after ...