Epping Gardens Aged Care Facility, where 38 people died from COVID-19, sent out scented candles to those mourning the death of loved ones. And the gesture has been met with fury by some, with families calling it “a slap in the face” and ...

A Queensland aged care nurse who worked at an aged care facility while infected with COVID-19 has lodged a complaint against the state’s government officials. Back in May, the nurse was called out by the Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk for ...

A new bill put to the federal parliament would drastically change the way aged care providers have to disclose information about how they run their businesses. Federal Member for Mayo Rebekha Sharkie has introduced a private members bill that, if ...

More than half of requests for masks, gloves and gowns from aged care providers were rejected as coronavirus swept the country and killed hundreds of nursing home residents. The Department of Health received 2865 requests for personal protective equipment from ...

Elderly Australians may not get early access to a coronavirus vaccine if the medicine has not been trialled on older age groups. Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy said older Australians were considered the most vulnerable and they would be ...

Online dating (ODing) is the strategy of looking for a sexual or intimate partner offline. Those who on the web date are also called online daters (Odes). Actually in a review of college college students, it was noticed that almost ...

In a surprising interaction at Thursday’s final hearing into the aged care royal commission, Commissioner Lynelle Briggs appeared to attack the recommendations of the counsels assisting midway through the hearing. The first morning of the two-day hearing saw Counsel assisting ...

Australia’s aged care system is littered with systemic failures, rife with abuse and needs to put people first, a royal commission has heard. Counsel assisting Peter Rozen put forward 124 recommendations for commissioners to consider during the second-last day of ...