Victoria’s plan to pay for nurses' and midwives' studies in exchange for working in public hospitals has raised concerns for the staff-stricken aged care sector. Victorian premier Dan Andrews announced in August that over 10,000 students will receive undergraduate scholarships ...

More aged care residents have died with Covid in the past 10 weeks than in the entirety of 2020 and2021 combined, recent Health Department data shows. Hardly surprising. If large numbers of people live communally in shared spaces, that we ...

Close to 60 per cent of Australia's workforce say the reforms in the new aged care bills are impossible to realise in the sector's current climate. The CompliSpace report surveyed over a thousand staff and revealed that nearly 90 per ...

Men over the age of 85 continue to have the highest suicide rates of any age group in Australia, new data shows, prompting calls to address an issue that experts say has been largely ignored. Recent figures published by the ...

Former Health Department Chief Martin Bowles has reportedly proposed “virtual nurses” could help address the shortage of nurses in aged care. This might involve remote, possibly artificial intelligence-assisted, virtual care, rather than physical nurse presence, to assist nursing homes to meet new ...

Aged care nurses and carers have been tipped as being in one of the most in-demand professions in Australia. The federal government ranked the top ten industries facing critical worker shortages over the next five years ahead of its Jobs ...

Making aged care an attractive place to work, boosting job security and utilising overseas recruitment were key issues flagged at a pre-summit industry roundtable held last week. Aged care providers, advocates, experts and health unions met with federal aged care ...

Aged care providers are voicing concerns the fair work umpire's verdict on increasing staff's wages will come too late. On August 17th, the federal government handed in its submission to the Fair Work Commission (FWC), pushing for a 'meaningful and ...

Close to 20 per cent of Australian rural and remote aged care facilities may apply for an exemption to the mandated requirement to have nurses on site 24/7, due to come into effect by July next year. Associate Professor of ...

As the government lands two major aged care bills, experts warn the sector's true reform will come down to the actions of the providers. "The mere fact that things look good on paper, does not necessarily reflect the actual experience ...