The NSW government is pushing ahead with plans to put a freeze on all public sector pay, including for nurses and other frontline workers. The freeze would scrap the planned 2.5 per cent wage increase and the Treasurer said this ...

Swinburne University’s Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults has launched a free national telehealth counselling and support service aimed at supporting older Aussies living in residential aged care. Launched earlier this month, the service is available nationwide and available to aged ...

Coronavirus-linked complaints to the aged care regulator more than doubled within a month. Aged care quality and safety commissioner Janet Anderson revealed 371 COVID-19 linked complaints were received in March and 760 in April. The number of complaints eased in ...

Another resident of the Newmarch House nursing home in Sydney has died after contracting COVID-19, taking the national death toll to 100. Operator Anglicare confirmed 93-year-old Alice Bacon died on Tuesday morning, raising the NSW tally to 49. Seventeen residents ...

Personal care assistants from CALD backgrounds will soon have access to a new set of tools that support stronger relationships with older adults. The training kit, available from early June, aims to improve intercultural communication in everyday interactions in aged ...

The operator of a coronavirus-hit Sydney nursing home where 16 residents have died admits it would have been easier if those infected at the facility had been transferred to hospital rather than treated on-site. But NSW Health is standing by ...

A pregnant aged care worker involved in a “sophisticated and disguised” scheme with her cousin to steal more than $150,000 from her boss has been sentenced to 10 months in a West Australian prison. Sandra Mumba, 27, was a carer ...

Aged care residents who have decided to leave their home due to the coronavirus pandemic will be covered by a new law that would allow them to take additional leave in extraordinary circumstances. It would allow permanent residential aged care ...