Mandatory vaccinations for aged care staff are set to be enforced tomorrow, Friday 17 September, as union leaders address mounting concerns that over 13,000 staff are yet to receive their first jabs. As of midnight, all aged care employees, including ...

Digital apps, virtual reality and other social technologies are being developed globally to aid widespread loneliness felt among older adults during COVID-19. New research has looked into the unintended consequences of digital apps to solve the deficit in social connection experienced ...

After losing her beloved staffy of 10 years, finding company in an eight-year-old senior rescue dog has eased the mundanities of lockdown for 87-year-old Newcastle resident Elizabeth Walters. “I think that they're good for your temperament,” she told Aged Care ...

As Australia’s largest cities grapple with the spread of the delta virus, experts are drawing attention towards a growing outbreak of aged-based stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. In a recent survey released last week by SBS, 51 per cent of people ...

Deaths caused by COVID-19 in Australia surpassed 1000 people on Monday after the escalating crisis in NSW recorded four deaths. Overnight NSW registered 1,290 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and as it stands, there have been 20,061 locally acquired ...

Social isolation and physical distancing have never looked as good as they have over the past year-and-a-half, proving to be essential tools in limiting the impact of the COVID-19 virus. More recently, much of NSW, Victoria and even occasionally south-east ...

Patricia Sparrow, chief executive of Aged Community Services Australia (ACSA), has announced her resignation after five years with the peak organisation. Under her leadership, Sparrow has steered ACSA through its transition into a national body, the royal commission and into ...

NSW will introduce Covid-19 rapid antigen testing across aged care facilities in greater Sydney in a bid to identify cases before they escalate into outbreaks. The commonwealth announced on Sunday it would roll out the new testing at the Uniting Bankstown Aged Care Facility on Monday, ...

A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...

Two aged care homes in Sydney have returned positive COVID-19 tests among unvaccinated staff members. The NSW government announced on Thursday morning that two staff members at a Japara facility in the Sydney suburb of Belrose tested positive, alongside one ...