Nurses, midwives and aged-care workers stand to lose more than $359 million a year if Sunday penalty rates are reduced to Saturday levels, a new report commissioned by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has found. The McKell Institute report, ...

Leading aged care services provider Japara Healthcare has announced the acquisition of the Profke Aged Care Group along with its four NSW and Queensland based facilities. The move represents Japara’s entry into the Queensland aged market and will bring the ...

Managers who don’t undertake proper due diligence when hiring staff may face problems whenever employees commit crimes. Managers employ staff regularly. How they do this is, to a large degree, within their employers’ discretion. If due diligence is not undertaken ...

The challenges facing the aged-care workforce at a time of an ageing population will be examined by a parliamentary inquiry. Greens Senator Rachel Siewert said the sector faces challenges such as struggling to attract and retain aged-care workers. The inquiry will ...

Keeping residents’ spirits up and engaging them with complementary therapies were at the heart of work by nominees for the MOA Benchmarking Community Service in Aged Care Award, which recognises medical and health professionals or volunteers who are supporting the health and ...

Residential aged-care workers feel they need more support from employers to tackle dementia and depression among their patients. In a study of more than 250 residential aged-care workers in Melbourne, researchers at the Institute for Health and Ageing found that ...

An aged-care nurse who spearheaded efforts to ensure the safety and care of her residents during severe storms that lashed the NSW Lake Macquarie region has been named Australia’s Nurse of the Year. Catrin Dittmar, a nurse at the RSL ...

There is an ever-increasing need for aged-care professionals in Australia. At the same time, service providers struggle to recruit enough RNs for these positions. This is particularly true in rural and regional areas. Researchers from Charles Sturt University have not stood idle in ...