The nation's COVID-19 vaccination rollout has become more complicated over the past week after questions were raised about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. After reports of a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots were raised by ...

The peak body for doctors has said that Australia could be saving $21 billion by eliminating avoidable hospital admissions from aged care homes and older people in the community. “The potentially preventable hospital admissions – just one aspect of the ...

Twelve aged care consumer peak organisations have come together and issued a joint plan for reform of the aged care sector. Led by the Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia, the groups issued a response to the royal commission's final ...

Police are investigating the death of an elderly woman at a Regis aged care facility in Perth’s leafy western suburbs. The 89-year-old woman died at the Nedlands facility on Tuesday. “Major crime division officers are making inquiries to determine the cause and circumstances ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has agreed to or noted all 55 recommendations in a report on sexual harassment in the workplace, one year on from its release. At a press conference, Morrison called the Respect@Work Report a “game changer”. It ...

A new review of paracetamol has revealed it has only been proven to relive pain in four conditions. The University of Sydney systematic review, published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia, held that for most conditions, evidence regarding ...

Australia’s chief medical officer has said there is no apparent causal link between the death of an elderly Queensland woman and the COVID-19 vaccination she received hours earlier. The 82-year-old, who had been living at the Blue Care Yurana aged ...

In an Australian first, the South Australian Government has announced that it will trial CCTV in aged care homes in a bid to stop potential abuse in the system. SA Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Stephen Wade, declared that a ...

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has defended Australia’s vaccine rollout after states and territories lashed the government over claims they were holding back vaccine doses from the public. Australia has administered a mere 670,000 vaccines as of March 31, falling ...

Your Side, a support service for older people, and people living with disability or mental health and their carers, recently announced award winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Spicer AM as its new ambassador. Aged Care Insite spoke with Spicer to ...