News & Issues

Geelong Council backflips on proposal to quit home care after union and community outcry

Victoria’s City of Greater Geelong local council has voted to continue delivering in-home care, after efforts earlier in the year to transfer operations to specialist providers were opposed, but says it will go to the Federal Government to ask for additional funding.

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Caroline Egan

30 May 2025

Government Policy

Anne Ruston retains Shadow Health, Aged Care and Sport, takes on Disability and the NDIS

The South Australian Senator Anne Ruston has retained her Health, Aged Care and Sport portfolios in Sussan Ley’s new Shadow Cabinet, and has also taken on the additional responsibilities of Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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Caroline Egan

29 May 2025

News & Headlines

Clean up continues for aged care homes inundated after NSW deluge

The clean up from the floods on the NSW Mid North Coast continues, with support provided by hundreds of local staff often themselves personally impacted in efforts described by Whiddon CEO Chris Mamarelis as “the very best aged care represents”.

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Caroline Egan

29 May 2025

News & Issues

Villages evacuated, isolated, without power as floods hit NSW Mid North Coast

70 seniors from a flooded over 55s retirement village on the NSW Mid North Coast had to be evacuated by the SES, Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) and local fire fighters at Taree with their units inundated with water.

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Ian Horswill

27 May 2025

Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: The rural aged care model rewriting the rules from the ground up

In the tiny WA town of Pingelly, locals aren’t waiting for aged care reform – they’re doing it themselves. And the results are quietly revolutionary.

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Lauren Broomham

22 May 2025

Government Policy

UK aged care faces crisis as immigration rules tighten

If you thought Australia’s aged care sector was doing it tough, spare a thought for our UK counterparts.

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Lauren Broomham

22 May 2025

Opinion

Fix it or fail: Australia’s health system can’t last another five years

Last week, I was fascinated by the Fin Review’s latest ‘Lunch with the AFR’ interview with Chris Blake, CEO of St Vincent’s Health Australia. His prediction? Australian hospitals, in their current form, have only about five years left to survive – and the aged care sector may face collapse even sooner.

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Lauren Broomham

22 May 2025

News & Headlines

Aged care erased: no mention of sector in Shadow Aged Care Minister interview

In an interview with the Shadow Minister for Aged Care Anne Ruston on the ABC’s Insiders program this week, aged care did not rate a mention, despite concerns about the historic reforms being rolled out in fewer than 30 working days.

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Caroline Egan

22 May 2025

Government Policy

80 SA aged care patients moved to luxury hotel yet 263 clog hospital beds

The SA Health program placing hospital patients awaiting aged care beds into the inner-city Pullman Adelaide hotel has provided care for 80 older people since the Transition Care Service launched just over two months ago, with clinical services delivered by Medibank-owned Amplar Health Home Hospital.

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Caroline Egan

15 May 2025

Technology

Exclusive: The Pure Food Co launch new texture modified breakfast products for aged care

NZ-based texture-modified food provider The Pure Food Co has developed a range of breakfast foods especially for people with swallowing difficulties ahead of the implementation of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards on 1 July 2025.

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Caroline Egan

15 May 2025

News & Headlines

Judge reviews final payout approvals in Newmarch House aged care class action

Last Friday, the NSW Supreme Court’s Justice Peter Garling hears from parties in Shine Lawyers’ class action against Anglicare Sydney over the deaths of residents at Sydney’s Newmarch House in the early days of the pandemic.

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Caroline Egan

07 May 2025

News & Headlines

Aged care worker charged with sexually assaulting seven aged care residents

A 47-year old former aged care worker, Tracey Salmon, has been charged with nearly fifty offences after she allegedly sexually abused seven aged care residents at Sydney aged care homes last year.

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Caroline Egan

01 May 2025

Opinion

Is Trump the golden ticket for aged care?

Hear me out – here’s the thinking. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen the headlines: US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on imports have rattled global financial markets – Australia included.

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Lauren Broomham

10 Apr 2025