The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has today released the most detailed look into the quality of residential aged care homes published in Australia. Using data acquired under the legal authority of the commission, and not previously ...

The lawyers assisting the aged care royal commission last week handed down 124 recommendations for the commissioners to consider – and Australia’s nurses say the majority must be implemented. Counsel assisting Peter Rozen said there has been an absence of ...

The aged care royal commission has handed down its COVID-19 report and the message to Scott Morrison and his government is clear: act fast, act now. The report, Aged Care and COVID-19: a special report, outlines four areas that need immediate ...

The aged care royal commission has heard evidence that the government had no COVID-19 plan for the aged care sector, leading to one of the highest aged care death rates in the world. In his opening remarks on Monday, counsel ...

The royal commission has urged the aged care sector to reform its approach to the workforce, with counsel assisting Peter Rozen telling those gathered that “the time for action … is now”. At the third Adelaide hearing, Rozen handed the ...

The royal commission finished its Hobart hearing with some ideas as to how better governance can go some way to fixing the poor practices currently seen across the sector. In his concluding remarks counsel assisting Peter Rozen alluded to the ...

“I want to begin this hearing with a basic proposition. People living in rural, regional and remote communities of Australia ought to have the same levels of access to aged care as people living in metropolitan areas, and the aged ...

The royal commission's interim report, titled simply Neglect, paints a grim picture of a sector devoid of caring and emotion and concerned only with the idea of itself as an “industry” that has “consumers” whose value is “defined by the amount of funding ...