Australians still don’t trust aged care. The 2019 Inside Aged Care report, which samples 1547 people across Australia, revealed only 20 per cent of Australians trust the industry. This was in line with the findings from the previous year’s report, ...

Governor-General David Hurley has signed off on a request from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety for an extension of six months, Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck has announced. Colbeck also named an additional commissioner – retired ...

A researcher at the University of South Australia has called for more aged care homes to allow their residents to keep pets. Dr Janette Young, a lecturer in health sciences, made a formal submission to the aged care royal commission, ...

While keeping food spend low in aged care might seem like a cost-saving measure, it’s actually a false economy. That’s one of the messages Dr Sandra Iuliano, who provided evidence at the aged care royal commission, sent to the sector via ...

“I just cried silently all the way home so Don couldn’t see. And I just thought, ‘Well maybe I just end it for both of us’,” said Rosemary Cameron, describing a low point she experienced as an informal carer. Cameron, ...

One in two aged care residents will have at least one fall each year. This figure goes up for those with dementia, as high as 90 per cent. That is a staggering statistic that was presented to the royal commission ...

Ongoing diet and nutrition problems in the care of a Wollongong aged care resident and a lack of good wound care practices point to wider underlying problems within the sector. Those were some of the concerns raised by the resident’s ...

Poor wound management led to an aged care resident having maggots found in her heel and the aged care home tried to cover it up, the royal commission has heard. Annunziata Santoro lived in residential aged care at Assisi Aged ...