Aged and Home Care
“Crunch time”: aged care providers need to meet community expectations or exit industry, Nick Loudon says, plus RACs are a ‘dead horse’
The Seasons Aged Care CEO – and LASA Board member – has taken the industry…
Busting aged care “media myths”: ACSA launches new social media ‘untruths’ series
Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) has started “debunking” some of the “many untruths” about…
“Like shifting the deckchairs on the Titanic”: aged care advocate calls for mandated staffing ratios
Aged care researcher and advocate Dr Sarah Russell writes in The Guardian claims by politicians…
Aged care plan for former Mullumbimby (NSW) hospital site – available from state government for $1
The NSW Government offered to sell the 13-acre Mullumbimby Hospital to Byron Bay Shire Council…
Workforce reality bites: aged care providers stall bed openings to tackle regional recruitment challenge
Royal Freemason’s Benevolent Institution opened their 70-bed Dubbo Masonic Village 11 months ago, but says…
LASA launches NEXT GEN initiative to foster new aged care leaders
The program will design and deliver programs to support younger aged care professionals’ career development…
“The tip of the iceberg”: The Australian puts the spotlight on reported aged care assaults
Social Affairs reporter Rick Morton has again covered aged care, seizing on the Combined Pensioners…
QLD patients waiting for aged care would take up entire hospital: ABC
Around 250 older people are waiting for aged care placement in Queensland hospitals according to…
QLD’s Public Advocate warns against “criminal treatment” of aged care residents: The Courier-Mail
Mary Burgess says aged care staff are being exposed to the risk of criminal prosecution…
Estia’s Norah Barlow again appeals for national register of aged care workers
The Estia Health CEO says we are “losing people in the sector” because staff are…
Adelaide aged care worker now chaperoned by court order: The Advertiser
The worker, who is accused of assaulting a resident in 2015, must now be chaperoned…
16% of US aged care residents given anti-psychotics without diagnosis: ABC Radio National
The program has detailed a Human Rights Watch report that found extensive use of anti-psychotic…