An aged care provider should have been pushed out of the industry well before its Gold Coast retirement home’s unprecedented abrupt closure, a royal commission barrister says. The federal health department should have revoked approval for People Care in 2017, ...

Whiddon is a large not-for-profit organisation that operates residential aged care, community care and retirement living, with 19 facilities scattered throughout NSW and parts of Queensland. Whiddon has been a proponent of the person-centred care model since 2015, its chief executive ...

Reusing half-eaten food, reheating food in a cold bain-marie and maggot-infested rubbish are among the poor food practices in aged care facilities revealed at the royal commission in Cairns this week. The commission heard from a panel of aged care ...

Aged and disability care providers have endured ongoing upheaval in recent years, culminating in the establishment of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in late 2018. With little foreknowledge of the process or obligations, the response requirement ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety continues this week in Darwin and will look at aspects of care in residential, home and flexible aged care as well as issues those living in rural and remote communities face. ...

The new Aged Care Quality Standards come into effect on July 1st 2019. The Royal Commission so far has put immense pressure on providers who now need the confidence and certainty they are monitoring and delivering outcomes like never before. ...

A nurse who suspected her father was being mistreated in an aged care home caught a care worker roughly handling him a number of times, including smothering him with a cloth. Aged care provider Japara failed to act when Noleen ...

Maggots were found in the mouth of a respite patient at an aged care facility in Broome and the incident was reported anonymously to the aged care complaints commissioner. The Royal Commission’s Broome hearing was told that during the course of ...