A Victorian aged care and high school’s intergenerational program has reached a new level of success. Dubbed the iGEN program, students from Catherine McAuley College are paired up with residents from Mercy Health Bethlehem and Mercy Health’s senior living community, ...

A Victorian council has decided to axe the in-home aged care services it provides to residents. In a council meeting last Wednesday, the City of Port Phillip, in Melbourne, voted to end its in-home aged care services. Around 650 residents ...

The case against an aged care home at the centre of a devastating killer Covid wave in 2020 in Victoria has returned to court. Lawyers acting for the home charged after residents died in a Covid cluster have asked for a key hearing ...

According to recent data, theft was the number one crime in nursing homes. In the year to March 2023, aged-care facilities saw more thefts than any other crimes – with nursing homes in Monash being targeted the most. Recent data ...

Aged care provider Bolton Clarke officially launched its second retirement and aged care community in Melbourne last week. The planned retirement village, ‘Callisto Place’, will feature 90 one, two- and three-bedroom apartments in the Bundoora suburb. Next to Callisto place, ...

A manager of an aged care provider has said ageist attitudes may be behind the rising number of homelessness among older people. NSW has followed Victoria in putting forward recommendations to address the 42 per cent increase of homelessness among ...

Melbourne-resident Joy* and her siblings used to visit their mother up to three or four times a week, and are now lucky if they are able to see her once a month.  Their mother, Mary*, is an Italian-born woman who ...

“Bigoted quackery has no place in this state.” That’s what Victorian premier Daniel Andrews had to say about his decision to ban gay conversion therapy. The state will introduce new legislation to ensure the practice is against the law. “For ...

Victorian hospitals will now be charged with reporting cases of potentially fatal anaphylaxis to the state’s health department. The new scheme, which came into effect on 1 November, was set up in response to the death of a 10-year-old boy ...

Victorians will get hundreds more nurses and midwives if changes to nurse-to-patient ratios are voted through parliament. The Labor Government announced plans to make amendments to the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) that will ...