Up to 139,000 aged care workers intend to leave the industry within the next three years according to a new workforce survey, with many staff holding serious doubts about incoming reform. The CompliSpace Aged Care Workforce Report was published on Monday ...

The federal government will make a submission to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) today to propose a pay rise for residential and home care workers, fulfilling one of Labor's core election promises. The government has refused to specify a dollar ...

Just shy of 11 weeks in office, the Albanese government's first piece of legislation to pass both houses of parliament was one of aged care's major reform bills. The Royal Commission response bill, bringing into effect 14 of the report's ...

The Albanese government has passed its first piece of major aged care legislation, enshrining an updated code of conduct for providers, a five star rating system for residential care homes, and mapping out the details of a new funding regime. ...

Australia is facing a rapidly ageing population with an urgent need for assistance – the numbers from the recent Australian Bureau of Statistics census did not beat around the bush. Experts fear the already stretched aged care sector in its ...

Australia’s aged care sector officially has a new joint peak organisation. On Friday, Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) and Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA) made its official transition into the Aged & Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA). The peak's ...

Older people are being portrayed as being in ill-health, victims, or being a burden on society in the Australian media, prompting researchers to call for changes in how society thinks about ageing. A new QUT study, 'Visibility and invisibility in ...

Sarah Holland-Batt's latest book The Jaguar contains an intimate collection of poems about the decline of her father and the impact grief has had on her. "It's a reckoning with the changes that someone can go through over the course ...

Allied Health Professions Australia strongly supports increasing the hours of registered nurses in aged care, just as we support all the recommendations of the Royal Commission. Unfortunately, cherry picking recommendations does people in aged care a disservice. A single nurse ...

Maggots have been found in the wound of an aged care resident, while other elderly people are allegedly being left in soiled continence pads for more than 16 hours, according to whistleblowers. More than 6500 aged care staff, relatives of residents or residents themselves, have submitted ...