BallyCara Chairman Marcus Riley launches ageing podcast ‘Booming’
The name parallels the Global Ageing Network (GAN) director’s 2018 book on ageing and brings together expert advice and personal…
Browsing: Out of the Ordinary
Living longer, but not better: life expectancy for Australians rises to 82.8 years
Implications for Australia’s future aged care system – and its interface with the healthcare system. The life expectancy for Australians…
Australian College of Nursing gifts $1M in scholarships to acknowledges nurses’ pandemic efforts
An indication of how cashed up Australia’s leading nursing organisations are. The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has gifted members…
Staff demand help after two residents attacked at Townsville retirement village
Staff at a retirement village in Townsville, Queensland, have issued a desperate call for intervention by police, after two residents…
Pioneers Wanted: Ryman Healthcare turns to residents in latest recruitment video – over 100 applications in just five days
The village and aged care operator has taken a unique approach in its latest campaign to attract new staff –…
Giant snake 2X average size found at ACT palliative care facility
Snake catchers have been called to a palliative care facility in central Canberra to remove a ‘massive’ eastern brown snake…
Aged care Commission draws just a third of the media attention as banks
The Aged Care Royal Commission has drawn a third of the media coverage as the Banking Royal Commission, says the…
Western Sydney family to turn floristry farm into $75M retirement village and aged care development
The family behind the 46-year-old A&L Florist wholesale shopfront and 32,400 sqm farm in Bossley Park, 36km west of the…
Melbourne home care worker jailed for raping elderly woman, 82
A terrible case. A Melbourne home care worker who wheeled an elderly man out of his bedroom so that he…
Age is just a number: Aged care residents and carers join viral ‘Git Up’ Challenge
Footage of residents and carers from Murray Haven Homes in Barham NSW has gone viral for their performance of the…