While keeping food spend low in aged care might seem like a cost-saving measure, it’s actually a false economy. That’s one of the messages Dr Sandra Iuliano, who provided evidence at the aged care royal commission, sent to the sector via ...

Private aged care providers operating in Queensland will be asked to publicly report staffing information. If they don’t, it may be published for them, should legislation proposed by the State Government go ahead. The move by premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is ...

Seventy aged care residents have been left homeless after the operator closed the private facility abruptly and without warning on Thursday afternoon. Police were called to Earle Haven Retirement Village on Queensland’s Gold Coast amid reports of a disturbance. The 70 ...

A man who falsely claimed to be a nursing director at an aged care facility has been fined $60,000. The Victorian man was convicted in the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court last week of charges laid by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation ...

Maggots were found in the mouth of a respite patient at an aged care facility in Broome and the incident was reported anonymously to the aged care complaints commissioner. The Royal Commission's Broome hearing was told that during the course of ...

An outreach service running out of Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital in Sydney is saving the NSW government $2 million a year and reducing pressure on its emergency department. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, there are approximately 270,559 people aged ...

MP and nurse Ged Kearney has been added to opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s aged care team. The former union leader, who won the federal seat of Batman for Labor, was named Shadow Assistant Minister on Sunday. Speaking to Nursing Review ...

You could be forgiven for missing the Lionel Bowen Law Building on Sydney’s Goulburn street. Its slate grey facade blends in on a sunless street situated between an apartment building and a decrepit looking car park. There is little fanfare ...

Better working conditions, increased spending and overall reform based on co-design principles is urgently needed in the aged care sector. That is according to a new report delivered by the Work and Family Policy Roundtable – a multi-disciplinary network of ...

The South Australian government has announced a trial of CCTV installations across at least five aged care facilities in the state over a 12-month period. The government will invest $500,000 in the Australian-first trial. It will be administered by UK ...