Almost a third of Australian aged care facilities spend less than 10 dollars a day on residents' meals, new data has shown, reviving calls for greater transparency around food spending. Of the 2,600 aged care facilities which self-reported food data ...

Tuesday’s federal budget directed $49.5 million dollars to training for aged care workers despite repeated industry calls to increase wages.  The Morrison Government's total forecast spending on aged care for 2022-23 has increased by less than 1 per cent compared ...

Over half of elderly residents on antipsychotics have no diagnosis for psychosis, a national report has shown, reigniting calls to embed trained pharmacists into aged care.  Last week, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released its first quarterly ...

Correction: the first edition of this article claimed that the new home care system will "adopt a centrally regulated market model" which is inaccurate. An overview of the federal government’s reform plan for home care has been published, giving an ...

Only 3.8 per cent of Australian residential aged care homes are on track to meet the government’s new staffing standards set for 2023, a new study has found.  As part of the federal response to the royal commission, providers must ...

After serving dishes in exclusive resorts and fine dining restaurants, French chef Stephan Blant said that working in residential care has offered a different type of reward.   “It’s life changing,” he told Aged Care Insite. “Unlike in a hotel, where ...

One in five aged care staff plan to resign by the end of 2021, with two in five intending to quit within the next five years, according to a recent survey.  The Perfect Storm report, published by consultancy firm CompliSpace, interviewed over ...

Digital innovation has been at the forefront of discussions around aged care reform and planning for the future ageing population. But Dr George Margelis, the chairman of the Aged Care Industry and Technology Council, is warning against innovating too fast.   He ...

Amina Schipp began searching for support after a series of unreported falls and a fatal medication error led to the end of her mother's life in 2019.  After sharing her story on a private Facebook group, Amina discovered that many ...

For Lynda Walton, a mental health advocate and aged care worker for over 30 years, the most valuable part of her job has been the opportunity to help people. “I was one of those people that wanted to save the ...