Husband and wife, Steve Sinclair and Philippa Goddard, did their due diligence before choosing to move into a retirement living community. “We checked 28...
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This week, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Safety and Quality turns its attention to the importance of nutrition.
About 83,500 extra places will be needed over the next 10 years alone in aged care, but service providers say they are under significant cost pressures.
Dementia Australia CEO Maree McCabe will call for mandatory, dementia education for aged care workers in her appearance at the Royal Commission into Aged Care...
The mandated practice of two-hourly repositioning of residents in aged care facilities to prevent bedsores is ineffective and could be causing more problems...
With the cost of caring for the elderly increasing, and the population ageing, Australia needs new sources of funding for aged care. In many parts of the world...
An Tasmanian aged care worker is in court over taking photos of himself with naked residents. The Magistrate’s Court in Hobart heard Adam Matthew Pettit...
More than 350,000 Australian pensioners’ hip pockets are expected to be hit once Aged Pension asset test changes come into effect on January 1, 2017. With home...
An estimated 50,000 New South Wales seniors have experienced some form of abuse, likely by a family member, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. The abuse...
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