The Albanese government has passed its first piece of major aged care legislation, enshrining an updated code of conduct for providers, a five star rating system for residential care homes, and mapping out the details of a new funding regime. ...
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Latest census data reveals pressing need for aged care reform
Australia is facing a rapidly ageing population with an urgent need for assistance – the numbers from the recent Australian Bureau of Statistics census did not beat around the bush. Experts fear the already stretched aged care sector in its ...
More »‘Major change’: new aged care peak comes into force
Australia’s aged care sector officially has a new joint peak organisation. On Friday, Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) and Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA) made its official transition into the Aged & Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA). The peak's ...
More »Call for more humane media portrayal of older people: podcast
Older people are being portrayed as being in ill-health, victims, or being a burden on society in the Australian media, prompting researchers to call for changes in how society thinks about ageing. A new QUT study, 'Visibility and invisibility in ...
More »Aged care advocate reflects on loss and grief: podcast
Sarah Holland-Batt's latest book The Jaguar contains an intimate collection of poems about the decline of her father and the impact grief has had on her. "It's a reckoning with the changes that someone can go through over the course ...
More »Why increased nurse hours aren’t enough to fix aged care: opinion
Allied Health Professions Australia strongly supports increasing the hours of registered nurses in aged care, just as we support all the recommendations of the Royal Commission. Unfortunately, cherry picking recommendations does people in aged care a disservice. A single nurse ...
More »Aged care insiders detail atrocious conditions
Maggots have been found in the wound of an aged care resident, while other elderly people are allegedly being left in soiled continence pads for more than 16 hours, according to whistleblowers. More than 6500 aged care staff, relatives of residents or residents themselves, have submitted ...
More »Some providers spending $6 a day on food: report
Almost a third of Australian aged care facilities spend less than 10 dollars a day on residents' meals, new data has shown, reviving calls for greater transparency around food spending. Of the 2,600 aged care facilities which self-reported food data ...
More »2022 Budget: Training boost for workers but no wage increase
Tuesday’s federal budget directed $49.5 million dollars to training for aged care workers despite repeated industry calls to increase wages. The Morrison Government's total forecast spending on aged care for 2022-23 has increased by less than 1 per cent compared ...
More »Antipsychotic use still rife in residential care: report
Over half of elderly residents on antipsychotics have no diagnosis for psychosis, a national report has shown, reigniting calls to embed trained pharmacists into aged care. Last week, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released its first quarterly ...
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