Living with Dementia

Juniper CEO Russell Bricknell warns WA Budget fails to meet aged care crisis head-on

The head of one of Western Australia’s biggest Not for Profit aged care providers welcomed the WA Budget but in the booming state economy, said the level of investment in aged care feels “incremental, not transformational”. “The reality on the...

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Caroline Egan

25 Jun 2025

Development

500 patients waiting: Gold Coast hospital to open new dementia units

Gold Coast Health is preparing to open a 12-bed Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Unit and 10-bed Acute Cognitive Unit (ACU) at Gold Coast University Hospital in September.

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Caroline Egan

18 Jun 2025

Aged Care

“We do”: HammondCare commits to caring for those with complex care needs

The Christian charity has launched a bold national campaign committing to supporting the increasingly complex care needs of older Australians, such as chronic health conditions, increasing rates of dementia, and palliative care.

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Caroline Egan

12 Jun 2025

Living with Dementia

Anglicare Southern Queensland open first specialist dementia care units on Gold Coast

The Australian Government Department of halth, Disability and Ageing has given $2.6 million to the has been spent unit at the Abri Residential Aged Care Home in Southport. The SDCP unit will be delivered through funding from the Commonwealth...

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Ian Horswill

12 Jun 2025

Living with Dementia

Dr Rodney Jilek’s Community Home Australia to open 20-studio dementia home in Sydney

The dementia care and disability support provider has announced plans to develop ‘Kora House’, a four-storey, 20-studio supported living facility across the road from Westmead Hospital, 26km west of Sydney’s CBD, for both NDIS participants and older Australians living with dementia self funding their care.

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Andrew Thorburn’s mission for HammondCare

Few operators want to tackle the complex end of aged care - but the HammondCare CEO has a plan to meet the growing demand for dementia and palliative care services.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Government Policy

51% of Dementia Support Australia aged care referrals’ involve psychotropic polypharmacy

Despite evidence that psychotropic medication is not effective and can have adverse side effects, a HammondCare study has found that more than half of its 421 referrals between 2016 and 2020 for psychosocial interventions had been prescribed psychotropic polypharmacy.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Living with Dementia

Govt throws $57M at helping people with dementia out of hospitals into aged care

The Federal Government has allocated $57 million over four years for the Hospital to Aged Care Dementia Support Program (HACDSP), aimed at improving outcomes for hospital patients with dementia who may have their discharge delayed.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Aged Care

Aged care operator Superior Care to refuse new residents with specialised dementia needs

The family-owned operator, which operates aged care homes in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, has revealed it will no longer accept residents living with dementia who have special care needs.

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Caroline Egan

23 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Two key Dept architects of the aged care reforms are moving to new jobs

Michael Lye, the Deputy Secretary, Ageing and Aged Care, and Nick Morgan, Assistant Secretary, Support at Home Reform, with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) have new jobs in the public sector that will shift them away from aged care, only months before significant reforms are scheduled to be implemented.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Living with Dementia

HammondCare CEO welcomes National Dementia Action Plan

HammondCare CEO, Andrew Thorburn, who stepped into the top job in June, has welcomed the release last week of Australia’s National Dementia Action Plan 2024-2034. The plan outlined eight actions to be implemented over the next decade to increase...

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Aged Care

NSW Supreme Court jury finds police officer Kristian White guilty of manslaughter of aged care resident Clare Nowland

After an eight-day trial in the NSW Supreme Court, the jury began deliberations last Wednesday, taking four days to unanimously decide the 34-year-old Senior Constable was guilty of the manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, after he Tasered her when she held up a knife up to him during an altercation in her Cooma aged care home, 114km south of Canberra.

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Caroline Egan

27 Nov 2024

Living with Dementia

Community Home Australia to expand Aashaya Jasri Resort in Bali, Indonesia

Innovative Canberra-based dementia care specialists Community Home Australia (CHA), along with PT CHA International Resorts, has announced the acquisition of a 4,000sqm parcel of land adjoining their Aashaya Jasri Resort in Bali.

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Caroline Egan

21 Nov 2024