The ACAR 2020 surprise announcement just prior to Christmas offers a golden opportunity for our industry amid ongoing challenges and uncertainty experienced in the past year. Although the Department of Health’s (DoH) latest offer is reduced from that planned prior ...

This year would have been an eventful one for the aged care sector even without COVID-19. With it, 2020 was a watershed moment. COVID-19 was, as the Aged Care Royal Commission put it, the greatest challenge the aged care sector ...

The end of 2020, the year of the unprecedented, is finally near. If you close your eyes and listen carefully, you can hear the collective sigh of relief across Australia. Look out the window and you’ll things are back in ...

In the second of this two-part series Nerelie Teese, certified laughter yoga leader and qualified chair yoga instructor, outlines some of the benefits and practicalities of chair yoga for aged care residents. The first and possibly most important consideration for ...

It was March last year when I read about research commissioned by then Minister for Aged Care Ken Wyatt investigating the quality of Australia’s in-home support since the 2015 changes to the home care system. The research focused not on the ...

In this two-part series, Nerelie Teese, certified Laughter Yoga leader and qualified Chair Yoga instructor, will outline the benefits and practicalities of Laughter Yoga and Chair Yoga for aged care residents. The first and possibly most important benefit for participants ...

With its budget announcement of $1.6 billion for 23,000 additional home care packages to help care for older Australians in their own homes, the government has taken a significant step in the right direction to support the thousands of elderly ...

Not surprising that the aged care mandarins are arguing about who should run the aged care show. Because there is no obvious winner that could take these 124 Royal Commission recommendations and turn them into something that will improve the ...