Making aged care homes more liveable for older Aussies will be a key feature of any changes to the sector, and as over half of all aged care residents have a dementia diagnosis, thinking outside the box when it comes ...

It has been over a week since the federal government released the final report from the aged care royal commission and, with the government not set to announce its full response until the May budget, the sector has had time ...

“Get cracking.” That’s the overwhelming call from advocacy groups in response to the release of the aged care royal commission’s final report. Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia said the report’s release places the onus on the Morrison Government to ...

The final report from The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was released today, and after two years it looks like this could only be the halfway point on the way to transforming the sector. Titled Care, Dignity ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the aged care royal commission’s final report “candid” and "ambitious” but the government has so far “made no decisions” on its findings. Commissioners Lynelle Briggs and Tony Pagone have set out a roadmap for government ...

We’ve lived with it for so long, it was beginning to seem like the Royal Commission on Aged Care would always be with us. But now that the astonishing, apparently never-ending series of revelations that shocked the nation will no ...

On Friday the Aged Care Royal Commission handed its final report the government. And fellow nurses, haven’t we been waiting for this for a long time. For decades, we’ve been raising our voices, telling anyone who would listen that the ...

New research is adding some depth to the picture of elder abuse in Australia, with a royal commission paper estimating more than a third of Australians living in aged care facilities have faced neglect, emotional abuse or physical abuse. Around ...

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 ...

In a surprising interaction at Thursday’s final hearing into the aged care royal commission, Commissioner Lynelle Briggs appeared to attack the recommendations of the counsels assisting midway through the hearing. The first morning of the two-day hearing saw Counsel assisting ...