Fifty-eight times a day. That’s how often staff from a Perth-based aged care provider feel they improve a resident’s life. The SwanCare team came up the average figure after hosting collaborative workshops, facilitated by an external agency, to figure out just ...

Nurses who have children and experience shiftwork may feel as though they’re not living up to society’s expectations of motherhood, a new study suggests. RN Dr Annabel Matheson explored the implications of working shiftwork while caring for children to identify ...

The healthcare industry has been put on notice after the Fair Work Ombudsman recovered more than $109,295 from 696 audits across health and residential aged care services. Of the businesses audited, including GPs, physiotherapy services, dental services and retirement villages, ...

Debate around staffing in aged care facilities should focus on the quality of patient outcomes rather than mandated staffing numbers, LASA chief executive Sean Rooney says. Mr Rooney said it was not negotiable that older Australians and their families should ...

Service providers, academics and heads of education and representative bodies will make up the government’s aged care workforce taskforce, the Minister for Aged Care has revealed. Funding of $1.9 million over two years for the taskforce was announced in the ...

Salisbury Downs resident Lan Tran has made the type of career change that may become increasingly more common in Australia as the manufacturing workforce continues to contract and the demand for aged care workers rises. Having worked at Clipsal for 22 ...

Alzheimer’s Australia recently put out a call for people passionate about fighting dementia to walk the Kokoda Trail in aid of research and support. Registered nurse Sarah Pettenon answered. Pettenon, manager of person directed care at Lifeview Residential Care, joined ...

“It’s not abnormal to feel grief when a client or resident dies.” Marie-Anne Schull, from palliative care provider Karuna, offered this reassurance in an interview with Aged Care Insite. Her comments followed Karuna’s survey of 100 nurses that revealed nearly ...