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 ...

Health Minister Sussan Ley has been accused of ignoring the need to improve aged-care worker pay after she recently dismissed previous efforts by governments to address remuneration within the sector as meddling. In an interview published by The Australian, Ley ...

While studying aged care, dementia was the one area that Michael Preston did not want to be involved with. Now a recent graduate of the University of Tasmania’s newly-created associate degree in dementia care, it’s clear it has become his ...

The newly minted Turnbull ministry has come under fire for its failure to include a designated minister for either ageing or aged care. Despite sweeping changes to the structure of various portfolios as part of Turnbull’s new cabinet arrangements, aged ...

More dementia training is necessary in degree courses for undergraduate RNs, a dementia care leader has argued. General manager of residential services at HammondCare, Angela Raguz, said some RN graduates employed in dementia-specific services had received as little as half an ...

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has called on senators to ignore the “government’s political rhetoric used against working nurses, midwives and AINs” surrounding changes to the current paid parental leave (PPL) scheme. The group said PPL provides the ...

A collision between the personal and the political. As a researcher and academic, I’ve often studied national budgets, demographic projections and care costs and written about paying for aged care. Now it’s become personal. Like so many others, we found ...

Community connections were a common thread among the three winners at the 2015 HESTA Aged Care Awards. Each spoke of the partnerships they’d made with other community members or organisations after receiving the recognition. Paul Brophy, manager of the Brotherhood ...