The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is a “step in the right direction” according to peak body Leading Age Services Australia (LASA). The announcement sees a focus on home care, rural and remote aged ...

Many people working in aged care see resident-to-resident aggression (RAA) happen daily but don’t have access to much evidence surrounding its prevention, a new study has said. Led by Dr Briony Jain from Monash University, Victorian researchers interviewed 15 people working ...

Pensioners living overseas will have to provide a “proof of life” certificate every two years if they want to continue to receive welfare benefits. The federal government wants to stop taxpayers’ money being paid to dead people, with the measure ...

It has been suggested that the western world has lost its ‘death literacy’ as we increasingly look to outsource end of life care to businesses. A new public health approach to palliative care has been put forward as a compassionate alternative ...

Former Federal Court judge Richard Tracey has been appointed to the aged care royal commission, after one of the commissioners pulled out for personal family reasons. Tracey, who retired from the bench after 12 years in August, will replace former ...

Sometimes the best ideas are so obvious no one seems to pay attention to them. Reablement is such a clever idea that it seems almost unnecessary to have a specialised word in aged care for it. Yet it may be ...

An Adelaide woman has become the world’s oldest skydiver, taking the plunge at the age of 102. Irene O’Shea jumped into the record books on Sunday: two years after she also skydived to mark her 100th birthday. SA Skydiving congratulated ...

Aged care providers should be required to report staff-to-patients ratios for their facilities each quarter, a committee investigating the move has told parliament. In a new report, the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport recommended the passage of ...