The South Australia Government have announced an Australia first trial of CCTV installation across at least five aged care facilities in the state over a twelve-month period. The government will invest $500,000 into the trial. It will be run by ...

As the aged care royal commission continues to reveal deeply troubling cases of mismanagement and elder abuse, a new charter aims to shore up the dignity and protection of aged care residents. Released under the federal government’s aged care quality ...

The federal government would need to spend an additional $2 to 2.5 billion a year to fix the long wait for elderly people to get the support they need to remain in their homes, the aged care royal commission has ...

An assessor in the Approved Provider Program Section of the Department of Health, whose identity has been suppressed, has told the royal commission that many potential aged care providers are, in their opinion, “bottom feeders”. The witness, who was referred ...

More than 300 people attended the Aged Care Royal Commission’s community forum at the sprawling Bankstown Sports Club in Sydney on Friday 1 March. Commissioner Lynelle Briggs attended the event, which she said was the first of its kind held for any ...

In the final two days of the first hearing of the royal commission we heard from the people affected by the system itself and had a summary of the proceedings to date. Kaye Warrener described to the commission the near ...

Associate professor Eddy Strivens gave witness testimony to the first hearing of the Royal Commission. As the president of the Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine, Strivens was called to give background on some issues facing the sector and, ...

Some people would rather die than go into residential aged care facilities. This is according to UnitingCare Australia’s Claerwen Little, who told the commission about the findings from Uniting’s research into community perceptions of aged care. They found, among other ...