More than 250,000 aged care workers in Australia are set to receive a 15 per cent wage increase after the government allocated $11.3 billion to fund pay rises in its federal budget. The increase applies to direct care aged care workers ...
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Rural homes struggling to prepare for 24/7 nurses
Rural and regional aged care facilities say they are still grappling with acquiring enough nurses to fill the 24/7 nurse deadline due to start this week. The mandate, due to start 1 July, requires every aged care home in the ...
More »‘Impossible’: rural homes struggle with 24/7 nurses
Rural aged care providers have said having enough 24/7 nurses on-site by July would be 'impossible' as they struggle to recruit registered nurses to live and work in regional areas. Sue Thomson, chief of regional aged care provider McLean Care, ...
More »‘This is just the start’: Anika Wells reflects on Royal Commission
March 1 marks two years since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s shocking final report was tabled in Parliament. The Royal Commission was a damning assessment of an aged care system in crisis. After years of ignorance, ...
More »Govt may raise taxes to pay for aged care reform
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has said increased spending on aged care would mean 'some sacrifices need to be made', avoiding the question of whether Labor is planning to raise taxes. The risk of a tax increase became even more likely ...
More »Aged care reform ranked top ethical challenge, report finds
Australia has named next year's aged care reforms as the nation's top ethical challenge, according to a recent report. The annual 2022 Ethics Index released last month quizzed a thousand Australians on ethical challenges around topics such as Covid-19 and climate change. ...
More »Rural homes need more support to meet new standards
As severe workforce shortages cripple the industry, rural and remote aged care homes may have been fighting the hardest to keep their heads above water - and it's not over yet. Upcoming legislation will mandate 24/7 registered nurses by July ...
More »Report reveals workforce has lost faith in aged care reform: podcast
Close to 60 per cent of Australia's workforce say the reforms in the new aged care bills are impossible to realise in the sector's current climate. The CompliSpace report surveyed over a thousand staff and revealed that nearly 90 per ...
More »Time to get to work and face the challenges of aged care reform – opinion
It is easy to be cynical about the new Australian government’s very first legislative bill to receive the endorsement of both houses. The Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response) Bill 2022, passed on 2 August, was claimed ...
More »Aged care lagging behind on tech: new report
Technology will be key to fix the “structural deficiencies” in Australia’s aged care sector and providers must improve their digital maturity in the next phase of system reform, experts have said. A new report by the RMIT-Cisco Health Transformation Lab ...
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