Simple phone calls are helping keep seniors steady on their feet and out of hospital emergency departments. A group of older Aussies who took part in a phone-based falls prevention program after being sent home from hospital were less likely ...

Aged care workers say they don’t have enough time to meet older people’s emotional and social needs because they are so rushed and under pressure to provide basic physical care. Workplace cultures in which staff are rushed and have little ...

Carole David was gardening in her backyard in 2015 when she brushed off a water dragon that had jumped on her shoulder. The motion of turning caused her significant back pain. “I didn’t think anything of it, but it was ...

A former Japara employee verbally and physically abused residents leaving them crying and “visibly upset” but was still allowed to keep their job for a number of years, the royal commission heard at its Melbourne hearing. The personal care worker ...

Nurses working in aged care are paid so poorly that they are forced to stay on higher casual rates and work 52 weeks a year to attain a living wage, the royal commission has heard. Paul Gilbert from the ANMF’s ...

Aged care providers are eyeing a US star rating system for staffing levels after a report suggested it could be replicated for the Australian sector. In a royal commission report, the Centre for Health Service Development pitched Australia’s aged care ...

Susan Ryan was watching her father with dementia shuffling around his aged care home, constantly crying and unable to swallow. Ryan’s father, Ray, had been placed on anti-psychotics as a chemical restraint to control his behaviour caused by the degenerative brain ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has sat for 55 days so far, calling 296 witnesses. Of those, 85 per cent have given testimony on issues concerning the aged care workforce, with 113 witnesses providing their perspective ...