AgedCareInsite · The Ageing Equation Podcast || Ep 2 The Ageing Equation podcast brings you insights into the aged care industry. Journalist Nance Haxton and residential aged care expert and consultant Safdar Ali break down the latest market analysis and ...
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Peaks, unions unite against government’s aged care vaccine ‘blame-shifting’
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 ...
More »Researchers collaborate with award-winning author to tell the story of chronic loneliness in aged care
Creative writing can deepen insights into how people living in aged care homes experience loneliness, according to a new study. Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves, a senior lecturer of sociology at Monash University, spent six months interviewing residents living in residential aged ...
More »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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AgedCareInsite · Ageing Equation Podcast || Budget 2021-2022 The Ageing Equation podcast brings you insights into the aged care industry. Journalist Nance Haxton and residential aged care expert and consultant Safdar Ali break down the latest market analysis and research ...
More »Researchers unveil new trial of heart drug to treat Alzheimer’s
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 ...
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