The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...

“We’re not funded for how happy a resident is.” That’s one of the ways in which the current aged care system fails to incentivise good practice, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety heard. Lucy O’Flaherty, who heads ...

Two sisters took the stand at the aged care royal commission on Wednesday and told the room that they had held their sobbing mother’s hand as she had her teeth extracted due to neglect by an aged care facility. The ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has released its second background paper as it aims to get to grips with the problems facing the sector. Titled Medium- and long-term pressures on the system: the changing demographics of aged ...

Two years after the introduction of personalised funding in the home care sector, the evidence of its impact of increasing choice, control and quality through competitive markets is mixed. Research commissioned by the Department of Health to evaluate the experiences ...

On Tuesday, the royal commission heard witness testimony from home care recipient Josef Rack. He told the commission about his seven years of frustrating home care with Southern Cross Care, where he claimed he was overcharged and ignored. He tendered ...

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 ...

Late last month the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Ken Wyatt announced new steps to improve aged care for LGBTI seniors. The Aged Care Diversity Action Plan for senior LGBTI Australians is aimed at catering to the needs of ...