Catherine Roche talked to the royal commission about her late husband, Michael Burge, who spent two years in aged care after he had a stroke aged 56. She described the difficulties she had navigating the space between the aged care system ...

On day two of the Melbourne leg of the royal commission, we gained a rare insight into the thoughts of the commissioners. In a scathing indictment of the disability and aged care sectors, commissioner Lynelle Briggs called the system “a ...

  My number one goal is to get the fuck out of the nursing home.” Lisa Corcoran is sworn in to give evidence to the royal commission in the usual fashion. Council assisting Bergin then begins the day with the ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety starts again this week in Melbourne and will focus on how younger Australians fare in the aged care system. Testimony will be heard from a number of people under the age of ...

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 ...