The number of older women experiencing homelessness in Australia is increasing, according to the annual State of the Family report published by Anglicare Australia. This little-recognised phenomenon is linked to various social factors. The report urged immediate action to better support these ...

Health Minister Sussan Ley has been accused of ignoring the need to improve aged-care worker pay after she recently dismissed previous efforts by governments to address remuneration within the sector as meddling. In an interview published by The Australian, Ley ...

The newly minted Turnbull ministry has come under fire for its failure to include a designated minister for either ageing or aged care. Despite sweeping changes to the structure of various portfolios as part of Turnbull’s new cabinet arrangements, aged ...

As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull begins to reframe the government’s approach to economic management, discussions on how Australia funds its health system must remain front and centre, the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association has said. AHHA’s chief executive, Alison Verhoeven, ...

The global cost of caring for those with dementia is set to top US$1 trillion by 2018 and the total number of cases is set to reach almost 75 million by 2030, a new report has found. Launched by Alzheimer’s Disease ...

Nurses have angrily rejected comments from the NT health minister, after he argued that valuable research dollars were being wasted on extending the lives of ageing terminal patients at the expense of furthering treatments for children’s health. In an interview ...

A Charles Sturt University academic has told a Legislative Council committee about the value of registered nurses in residential aged care. Earlier this week, nursing lecturer Dr Maree Bernoth gave evidence to the inquiry into RNs in NSW nursing homes. She said: “I’m quite ...

The peak body on ageing is alarmed that 90 per cent of women do not have enough money to retire on. COTA said the release of the 2015 ANZ women’s report, Barriers to Achieving Financial Gender Equity, highlights the urgent need for ...