ABC and Anne Connolly trolling for ‘bad news’ is ‘contemptible’
Last Friday at 10.29 AM the ABC’s Anne Connolly sent out an email calling on the families of aged care…
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The DCM Institute provides Covid-19 tools and resources to Village Managers and Operators
Jodie Prosser, Tania Kelly and Jill Donaldson have created a wide range of tools and resources and made them available…
The Villages app – to find your way around
On a lighter note, the largest village in the world ‘The Villages’ in Florida with 110,000 residents, has just launched an app…
NZ: Ryman gives care staff $2 an hour pay boost
Staff at the NZX-listed provider’s New Zealand retirement villages have been told in an email that they will get a…
MinterEllison warns QLD Govt that retirement villages can’t protect residents unless urgent laws are passed to increase their powers
MinterEllison partner Robin Lyons (pictured below) says that retirement villages do not have the same powers as aged care homes to…
WA: Coronavirus hits two communities in Mandurah
Two residents at Lattitude Lakelands north of the popular retirement town, 72km south of Perth – which is owned by…
Ansell Strategic warns of “imminent” collapse of residential aged care homes – $9 billion in RADs at risk over next 9 months
The advisory firm has researched the international aged care sector experience with COVID-19 and modelled what Australia can expect across…
National Cabinet expands coronavirus testing criteria to aged care staff and residents
The Cabinet has agreed anyone who has a fever or acute respiratory infection and meets one of the following criteria…
Government to draft in 1,000 retired RNs to treat coronavirus patients
Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced up to $1 million funding for the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) to provide…
Department of Health warns aged care providers of delays in PPE and only masks available – says aged care staff do not need to wear PPE unless providing care to suspected coronavirus cases
The Department says it can only provide masks at this stage with other PPE (including a gown, surgical mask, eye…