The government has praised a new funding model proposed for residential aged care. Called the Australian National Aged Care Classification system (AN-ACC), its authors say it explicitly focuses on improving quality of care, rather than paying providers. Professor Kathy Eagar, ...

When quality of residential aged care is called into question, two paths to improvement seem to form: improved funding and mandated staffing ratios. The peak body for all providers of age services, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), is helping forge ...

LASA has issued a renewed call for improvements to staffing and funding levels following media reports on the death of a resident at a Bundaberg nursing home. Referring to an ABC TV report on the 7.30 program which blamed funding cuts ...

ACSA has used its pre-budget submission to urge the government to consider funding reforms for the sector, and improve the number of home care packages available to senior Australians. With more than 100,000 older Australians still on the waiting list ...

Australia is set to become a leader in palliative care research, thanks to a $60 million grant for end-of-life care projects. South Australia will particularly benefit, as Flinders University received $8 million for its palliative care related research. College of ...

Coalition meets with stakeholders to determine fate of funding package.  The Coalition has begun consultations with the sector on the best way to redistribute $1.1 billion in funding from the scrapped workforce supplement, keeping a commitment it made last year. ...

Leading nursing experts want to make aged care the profession’s top priority for the year ahead.  Nursing organisations and professionals from around Australia have agreed: aged care will be one of the biggest issues on the agenda in 2014. This ...

It is essential that we expand the role of nurses in the delivery of primary healthcare if we are to meet Australia’s future health needs.  Our healthcare system is under threat. Our ageing population and the way we live are ...