Saturday, 24 January 2026

Aged Care

ABC journalist Anne Connolly wins Humans Rights Awards for Four Corners aged care investigation post image

ABC journalist Anne Connolly wins Humans Rights Awards for Four Corners aged care investigation

US: More deaths now occur at home than in hospitals and aged care facilities post image

US: More deaths now occur at home than in hospitals and aged care facilities

“She doesn’t really trust him”: Canberra woman says GP in mother’s aged care facility only focuses on “reactive care”

Larger facilities best equipped to provide health care to aged care residents, Sydney emergency medicine director tells Commission – and there is scope for specialist aged care medical workforce

Commissioner Briggs raises idea of additional national agreement to set down responsibility for health services in residential care during panel with State health officials

Senior Counsel calls on Commonwealth, States and Territories and providers to join forces to fix failings in interface between aged care and health care – as Counsel Assisting “reconsiders” propositions

“We don’t have a clue”: Australia five to 10 years behind other countries on collecting data in residential care, geriatric medicine experts tell Commission

Provider-driven market has failed to deliver health care to residents, state health officials say – but funding, legislative and information sharing reform needed to incentivise change

Melbourne aged care resident spending one-and-a-half hours on bus to visit specialists

“They were just not equipped”: Canberra woman says RN in charge of pain medication for dying mother was working across multiple facilities

Panel of aged care facility managers tells Commission they can’t get specialists to attend facilities – Commissioner Briggs weighs up whether they have “moral” obligation to visit

Only one resident out of 1,200 with an ACFI claim for palliative care: in-house palliative care nurse practitioner says providers can’t provide similar service without funding and regulatory reform