Australia’s aged care peak bodies and unions have rallied together to demand the government take responsibility over the failed vaccine rollout. In a joint statement, the Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC) along with the ANMF, AWU, UWU, HSU, ASU and ...
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Five residents at a Sydney aged care home test positive to Covid, two-thirds of staff unvaccinated
Two more residents at an aged care home in Sydney’s northwest have tested positive to Covid as fury grows about why unvaccinated staff were allowed to work there. There have now been five confirmed cases at the home, according to ...
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In a world first, researchers will trial the use of a cardiovascular medication to treat Alzheimer's disease. The study is based on the discovery that probucol, a drug used to manage high cholesterol, may be able to decrease the inflammation ...
More »Only 15 per cent of residential care workers, 4 per cent of home care staff vaccinated: Colbeck
The government's handling of the vaccination rollout in aged care came under scrutiny again in the last sitting week of parliament before the winter break. Aged care services Minister Richard Colbeck revealed that only 4 per cent of home care ...
More »Aged care faces workforce ‘exodus’ if jabs become mandatory
One third of West Australian aged care workers would quit if the government mandates the COVID-19 vaccination, according to a survey conducted by the nursing union in the state. The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) state secretary Mark Olson said that ...
More »Ageing is irreversible: new landmark research
A landmark study has found that slowing or reversing the ageing process is unlikely to be possible for humans. Researchers from 14 different countries set out to test the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis, which says that a species has ...
More »A vaccinated nurse one of three new positive cases in Victoria, worked with Arcare patients
A vaccinated nurse has tested positive to Covid-19 in Victoria as the state recorded three new locally acquired infections on Wednesday. The state’s health department announced five new local cases about 8.30am, but two of those were previously revealed on ...
More »Gov says 100 per cent of aged care facilities have now had first vaccine doses, 94 per cent have had second
More than five million Australians have received the Covid-19 vaccine as the federal government announced GPs will be able to administer doses for people with disabilities and the elderly at their homes. Health and Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt said 5.9 ...
More »New drug to halt dementia after multiple head injuries
Sportspeople who sustain repeated blows to the head throughout their career could be spared the onset of dementia as a consequence, after a world-first study identified a new drug that halts the post-concussion development of a protein that causes the ...
More »11 new COVID-19 cases in Victoria, 3 new cases at Arcare Maidstone
Victoria recorded 11 new positive local cases of Covid-19 on Monday, including three in aged care. Arcare chief executive Colin Singh confirmed two new cases at the company’s Maidstone facility in Melbourne’s inner west in a media statement on Sunday. ...
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