Residential aged care workers are facing new requirements for a third booster shot to be considered as fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) now considers three doses of Covid-19 vaccine necessary in order to be “up-to-date”. Based ...

Workforce shortages present a significant challenge for the aged care industry. The increasing demand of work in the field, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic management requirements, highlights an urgent need for a review of the aged care crisis. Although the ...

After 11 years of working in aged care, Donna Rowland has reached her limit. The Victorian personal care worker is one of the hundreds across Australia struggling to meet elderly residents' basic care needs due to critical staffing shortages. “I've ...

A report released today by the University of Canberra’s National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) has predicted the future cost of Alzheimer's disease to the community to be $442 billion over the next 20 years. The report, titled ...

A joint open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the state of the aged care sector was published today by the Australian Aged Care Collaboration and several unions. The letter calls on the government to take action immediately to ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deploy members of the Australian Defence Force to help assist nursing homes with staff shortages caused by surging Omicron cases. Mr Morrison said up to 10 teams of ADF personnel would give “targeted support” in aged care, ...

After migrating to Australia from Jordan at 18 years of age, Amal Eneziet felt it was her calling to assist others living in her community. “It was a challenge not having any family here,” the former disability support worker told ...

Almost a quarter of aged care shifts are being unfilled as the sector records a surge in COVID-19 related deaths among people living in residential care, a new report has shown. The Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC) published a situation ...

Greg Hunt has pointed the finger at one group of people over the takeup of booster shots. The Health Minister has been slammed for failing to know how many aged care residents who died from Covid-19 during the Omicron wave had received their ...

Correction: the first edition of this article claimed that the new home care system will "adopt a centrally regulated market model" which is inaccurate. An overview of the federal government’s reform plan for home care has been published, giving an ...