Aged care advocates are pleading for the government to fund more home care packages to meet the demand, as they prepare for the aged care royal commission to hand down its final report next month. “It’s a form of institutionalised ...

The Australian government is following up on reports that the Pfizer-Biotech COVID-19 vaccine has caused side effects among several people who have been administered the vaccine in Norway. Norwegian authorities have confirmed at least 29 elderly aged care recipients of ...

Labor has accused the government of giving workers a summer holiday pay cut as it pushes ahead with plans to alter penalty rates. The government will push ahead with a suite of industrial relations reforms in 2021. It will also ...

Marcus Riley, positive ageing expert and contributor to Aged Care Insite, has released his brand new podcast, Booming. The show aims to bring together expert advice and personal stories that will educate and inspire listeners to embrace and thrive through ...

New research is adding some depth to the picture of elder abuse in Australia, with a royal commission paper estimating more than a third of Australians living in aged care facilities have faced neglect, emotional abuse or physical abuse. Around ...

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 ...

Tasmanian Senator Richard Colbeck has been relieved of the aged care portfolio in the prime minister’s cabinet reshuffle announced on Friday, a day after the government announced increased funding for the sector in the MYEFO budget. Prime Minister Scott Morrison ...

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 ...